Dr. Gil Mor discusses sex-specific placental responses and long-term immune alterations from prenatal virus exposure.

Going by his words, understanding the human brain is far more complex than comprehending the entire solar system. Veteran ...

Despite the immense amount of genetic material present in each cell, around 3 billion base pairs in humans, this material ...

Despite the immense amount of genetic material present in each cell, around three billion base pairs in humans, this material ...

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

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Genetic studies reveal a strange moment in human prehistory when male lineages nearly vanished, leaving only a small fraction to carry the Y-chromosome forward. Some researchers believe the Younger ...

Nucleosomes are barriers to RNA Polymerase II (Pol II) transcribing along gene bodies in eukaryotes. We found that a fragile “tailless nucleosome” could be generated to resolve the Pol II pausing ...

Power was being restored on Wednesday to thousands of households in Berlin that had been without electricity in freezing ...

Researchers discover that insect sex systems influence the speed of mitochondrial evolution, impacting biodiversity tracking ...

This is a summary of: Liu. H. et al. Viral RNA blocks circularization to evade host codon usage control. Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09809-y (2025).