The impact of maternal trauma extends beyond a single generation, influencing the health of children and grandchildren through changes in gene expression. Scientists believe this transmission occurs ...

In previous work, the team showed that some HARs alter gene expression in human-specific ways compared with our closest primate relatives. The latest study greatly expands the understanding of the ...

Mice are still incapable of writing the complete works of Shakespeare, despite some being given a human "language gene".

Biological sciences researchers from the U of A have led the publication of a paper that expands our understanding of sensory ...

The immune system responds to an infection by producing antibodies that recognize and bind to the cell surface of the ...

The immune system responds to an infection by producing antibodies that recognize and bind to the cell surface of the pathogen, thus marking it as an intruder and triggering an immune response. For ...