Yeast’s emergence as a model organism reshaped scientific discovery in cell biology, genetics, and more.

An updated edition of the April 13, 2026, article. Genomics is the comprehensive study of genomes, the complete set of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) within an organism. Rapid scientific progress in this ...

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Researchers at Cornell University have developed a safer and more precise way to study how genes function in living tissues by refining a recently developed CRISPR-based genetic technique in fruit ...

A developmental timer that fires thousands of genes in precise, phase-locked bursts has been mapped in detail for the first ...

Mo Khalil is the Hok Lam and Kathleen Kam Wong Professor of Bioengineering and Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences ...

A research team in Carnegie Mellon University's Ray and Stephanie Lane Computational Biology Department is working to better understand the role that genetic on and off switches play in activating ...

The research team led by Professor Jongmin Kim from the Department of Life Sciences at POSTECH, along with graduate students Hyunseop Goh and Seungdo Choi, has successfully developed the 'Synthetic ...

Bipolar disorder is a complex psychiatric disorder, characterized by fluctuations between episodes of (hypo)mania and depression. It is estimated to affect around 40 to 50 million people worldwide.