Elana Thieme and Mark Mendoza, fourth-year graduate students in the Molecular and Cell Biology (MCB) PhD Program jointly ...

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A team of researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has uncovered why children with the same ...

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Researchers at Duke University used CRISPR technologies to discover previously unannotated stretches of DNA in the 'dark genome' that are responsible ...

Curiosity-driven experiments in a basement eventually sparked a worldwide rethink of how stress, addiction, and life experiences shape the brain.

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The inaugural competition surprisingly awarded two $100,000 grand prizes to address challenges in defining robust benchmarks for complex biology.

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A new study suggests treatment-resistant depression may be rooted in the immune system. Trauma, stress biology, and ...

Inside every human cell, six feet of DNA folds into a nucleus that is only a few micrometers wide, yet still manages to ...