Can zebrafish help find autism treatments? Scientists used pharmaco-behavioral profiling to identify FDA-approved drugs, like levocarnitine, that reverse autism-related behaviors in zebrafish.

The obsession with naturally pink lips ignores basic biology. Dermatologist Dr Aanchal Panth says melanin determines lip ...

Wondering what really causes borderline PD? New neuroscience discoveries suggest that genetics and brain irregularities may ...

At this year's quinquennial International Congress of Genetics, human genetics provided only a fascinating minority of the content of this conference dedicated to illuminating fundamental biological ...

Kathryn Paige Harden's "Original Sin" explores the genetic roots of sin and guilt, and our attitudes toward punishment.

The lawsuit claims the surrogate had severe psychiatric illness, including Baker Act admissions, and was psychiatric instable ...

POSTECH develops a platform for precise cellular control using "non-genetic DNA" decoupled from genetic information.

After a decade-long quest to fill a major gap in basic biology, UChicago scientists have built a complete map of how cells ...

Anton Hermes has found success selecting and developing bred heifers in eastern Colorado, and marketing them across the ...

Cells are the basic building blocks of all living organisms. In a healthy body, cells follow an orderly life cycle: they develop from a systematic process called mitosis, perform important ...

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