Research into how a father’s choices — such as diet, exercise, stress, nicotine use — may transfer traits to his children has ...

One of the most detailed 3D maps of how the human chromosomes are organized and folded within a cell's nucleus is published ...

What keeps our cells the right size? Scientists have long puzzled over this fundamental question, since cells that are too ...

At the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research in Basel, Switzerland, mouse geneticist Antoine Peters and his team investigate how ...

What keeps our cells the right size? Scientists have long puzzled over this fundamental question, since cells that are too large or too small are linked to many diseases. Until now, the genetic basis ...

You pour your morning coffee, reach for that familiar packet or bottle to make it taste just right, and think nothing of it.

The analysis revealed that about 2 per cent of sperm from men in their early 30s contained disease-causing mutations. That ...

What makes someone a "morning lark" or a "night owl?" Why does jet lag hit us so hard, and why do some people struggle each ...

Testosterone promotes the conversion of glucose to fatty acids by increasing the expression of ACLY in seminal vesicle epithelial cells, thereby regulating the seminal plasma components.