The flowerpot snake, one of the world's smallest snakes, has some unusual distinctions. Also known as the Brahminy blind ...

The ends of chromosomes, called telomeres, typically shorten as an organism ages. But when some fat-tail dwarf lemurs ...

Scientists at EMBL have captured how human chromosomes fold into their signature rod shape during cell division, using a ...

World Down Syndrome Day: Down syndrome appears as a genetic disorder following abnormal cellular division which results in either an entire or partial additional chromosome 21. The body and brain ...

Accordingly, our cover this week features a tonic designed to soothe the synapses and galvanise grey ... Follistatin may lengthen the ends of chromosomes, a possible indicator of longevity.

As animals experience new things, the connections between neurons, called synapses, strengthen or weaken in response to ...

These were some of the questions that were addressed during the annual Synapse Conclave in the capital last month, where over 40 speakers, including Nobel laureates, Pulitzer Prize-winning ...

“We’re not gamblers,” Morris told the judge in a mid-November bankruptcy court hearing for Synapse, the financial services middleman that connected Yotta with banks, according to the transcript.

Neural activity determines which synapses are preserved ... including copy number variations (CNVs) in regions like chromosome 22, long arm, band 11.2 (22q11.2) and chromosome 16, short arm ...

Over the past decade, a growing amount of research has revealed how liquid-liquid phase separation mediates protein interactions throughout the cell and, furthermore, at the synapse. While this ...

In a surprise, work in mice has found that the dormant X chromosome in females can reawaken late in life and turn on genes that keep the brain healthy. UCSF researchers may have discovered how the ...

Researchers show that transposons can target and insert themselves at the ends of linear chromosomes, called telomeres, within their bacterial host. In Streptomyces -- historically one of the most ...