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The CISD1 protein appears to play a role in causing symptoms of Parkinson’s disease in some genetically inherited cases.

Studying how endogenous viral elements have evolved in monkeys may help us treat prostate cancer and other diseases in humans.

Moderate alcohol exposure during early pregnancy alters the activity of many genes in newborn mice.

A new method to measure the effectiveness of natural selection indicates that weak selection favours proteins with more structural disorder.

Scientists working in fields with a high proportion of women researchers receive lower scores during evaluation and are less likely to get funded, suggests new study.

Cellular stress response systems help guide food choices in the microscopic worm Caenorhabditis elegans.

Coronaviruses emerged recently in bats in East Asia and Europe and evolved by jumping between mammalian species, suggests new analysis.

Mental training exercises that increase empathy and compassion may change the structure of the hippocampus and reduce levels of the stress hormone cortisol.