A great part of living in the 21st century is that if you have a device that connects to the internet, you have access to hundreds, if not thousands of experts who are often eager to share in-depth ...

DNA is often called the blueprint of life, but what does that really mean? Elizabeth Worthey, Ph.D., associate professor, Department of Genetics in the Heersink School of Medicine, explains everything ...

The same pathogen can often elicit very different responses from different people. Scientists sought to understand more about ...

Old age is the last stage of a lifelong process of biological, intellectual and spiritual change – in many ways, it is the culmination of life. Understanding, to the best of our ability, why we age ...

Doubly uniparental inheritance (DUI) of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) represents a rare and intriguing deviation from the standard model of strictly maternal inheritance. In bivalves, DUI manifests as the ...

Scientists have identified a mechanism that cells use to repair damage in DNA that is associated with aging and health conditions like cancer and ALS (also known as motor neuron disease). In this ...