A food writer learns there may be a scientific reason behind his lifelong cucumber aversion.

An archaeon reads the same codon in two different ways, overturning a doctrine that has stood for 60 years. Living organisms ...

A new study reports that the locations where genes begin are particularly prone to mutations, and these genetic changes can ...

Wheat that can help make its own fertilizer is no longer a speculative idea from plant biology textbooks, it is a working ...

Yet Crick was not afraid to be wrong. Before settling on the double helix, he proposed a triple one. He published an ...

R-loops are structures that form when a strand of RNA (red) forms a stable structure with double-stranded DNA, causing one strand of the DNA to form a loop. R-loops are associated with gene ...

New research has filled in missing links between gene variants that have been implicated in disease through genome-wide association studies and how the variants drive disease pathology. The research ...

Each year, 263 million people get malaria. But from the parasite's perspective, infecting humans is harder than you might think, and requires completing an epic journey within the tiny body of a ...

A British biotech firm called Basecamp Research has spent the past few years collecting troves of genetic data from microbes living in extreme environments around the world, identifying more than a ...

How the false notion of "white genocide" traveled from the political fringes to the Oval Office. The week on Code Switch, we're talking to a reporter who was in the room during a meeting when ...

Peer ReviewDownload a summary of the editorial decision process including editorial decision letters, reviewer comments and author responses to feedback. Large-scale comparison of gene families across ...