A new study from Bar-Ilan University shows that one of sleep's core functions originated hundreds of millions of years ago in ...

Sleep may have evolved to help reduce DNA damage in nerve cells long before they became centralized in the brain, a study ...

A new CRISPR breakthrough shows scientists can turn genes back on without cutting DNA, by removing chemical tags that act ...

The conservation of genome regulatory elements over long periods of evolution is not limited to vertebrates, as previously ...

One of the most well-studied cellular responses is how they react during times of stress, such as when the temperature gets ...

Scientists at Nagoya University in Japan have identified the genes that allow an organism to switch between living as single ...

Presbyopia or age-related farsightedness is the most common cause of vision impairment worldwide. Using a pair of reading glasses can resolve the problem.