Jeffrey Hatcher has written 10 shows including Neddy (Playwright), Three Viewings (Playwright), Scotland Road (Playwright), The Turn of the Screw (Playwright), Lucky Duck (Bookwriter), Tuesdays ...

A brain structure called the amygdala, and its connections with another region, the prefrontal cortex, shape people’s experiences and social interactions. The discovery of a key molecular ...

A massive trans-ancestry genome-wide association study (GWAS) looked at the genetic makeup of 688,808 individuals with depression and 4,364,225 people in the control group and identified, in total ...

Join the University of Tennessee Extension for free beginner Tai Chi for Fall Prevention and Arthritis classes at four locations. This fun eight-session program builds strength, balance and ...

This complex process, known as gene expression, determines which proteins we make and whether we make them in the correct amounts, crucial work given that proteins play a role in virtually every a ...

The same is now possible in gene editing. Rather than employ separate tools for editing genes and regulating their expression, these distinct goals can now be combined into a single tool that can ...

Each gene tells a cell to make a specific molecule, but this isn't performed by the DNA itself. Instead, the information is relayed to cellular machinery by a molecule called messenger RNA.

Gene regulation refers to the mechanisms that act to induce or repress the expression of a gene. These include structural and chemical changes to the genetic material, binding of proteins to ...

New work by Columbia researchers has turned a textbook principle of genetics on its head and revealed why some people who carry disease-causing genes experience no symptoms. Every biology student ...

The singer, 50, looked incredible in a chic black lace dress as she was joined by her husband Stephen Haines, her son Gene Gallagher, 23, and daughter Skipper, 4. Her stylish ensemble boasted a ...

Nick Hatcher is a senior publishing editor on The Wall Street Journal's speed and trending desk in New York. Nick edits breaking and trending news stories for the WSJ's digital audience.