Many proteins are capable of spontaneously rearranging themselves within cells to form molecular condensates—membraneless ...

What scientists once dismissed as junk DNA may actually be some of the most powerful code in our genome. A new international ...

Bioinformatics articles from across Nature Portfolio Bioinformatics is a field of study that uses computation to extract knowledge from biological data. It includes the collection, storage ...

New study reveals hidden viral DNA in primates plays key role in gene regulation and evolution through ancient regulatory ...

Fragments of ancient viral DNA once dismissed as “junk” may play a role in controlling our genes, according to a new ...

A research team has identified, for the first time in humans, and in a realistic environment, a key neurophysiological ...

Genetics research reveals how diverse complex biological systems are. Diversity and collaboration make for more thorough and ...

The interaction between a common gene variant and gut microbes may trigger chronic inflammation in ulcerative colitis, new ...

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have solved a long ...

New research highlights the critical role of dynamic motion in recognizing familiar people, beyond static facial or body ...

What makes the human brain distinctive? A new study published July 21 in Cell identifies two genes linked to human brain features and provides a road map to discover many more. The research could lead ...