When a woman becomes pregnant, the outcome of that pregnancy depends on many things—including a crucial event that happened while she was still growing inside her own mother's womb. It depends on the ...

New Haven, Conn. — The 2025 Gruber Genetics Prize is being awarded to geneticist and molecular biologist Rotem Sorek, Ph.D., of the Weizmann Institute of Science, for his discoveries in the immune ...

OXFORD, Oxfordshire, UK, 14 October 2025 -- In a compelling Genomic Press Interview published today in Genomic Psychiatry, Dr. Najaf Amin unveils transformative insights that fundamentally reshape ...

The discovery of all five nucleobases on Ryugu strengthens the idea that life’s molecular ingredients formed in space before ...

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) remains one of the leading causes of cancer-related mortality worldwide, reflecting the limitations of current diagnostic and therapeutic strategies. Despite ...

People living with HIV (PLHIV) have an increased susceptibility to non-AIDS comorbidities. In this study, we systematically profiled 1,342 PLHIV across five omics layers and immune function. We found ...

In particular, genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have pinpointed hundreds of genes associated with disease risk, enabling the development of drugs targeting a broad range of highly prevalent ...

Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Jameel Clinic for Machine Learning in Health have announced the open-source release of Boltz-2, which now predicts molecular binding ...

Joshua Lederberg, Nobel laureate and president of Rockefeller University, is well known in biology circles. Not so his wife, Dr. Esther Lederberg – whose name was drowned in the annals of the history ...

This project was supported by contracts between the National Academy of Sciences and 23andMe (unnumbered contract); AbbVie Inc. (unnumbered contract); American Academy of Nursing (unnumbered contract) ...

In 2020, Jennifer Doudna, Ph.D., received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, CRISPR-Cas9, a method for genome editing. Often referred to as “molecular scissors,” CRISPR cuts DNA at specific locations that ...

Neil Hunter, a professor in the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, has discovered a crucial step in how chromosomes stay connected during the development for egg cells and sperm, ...