For almost a century, psychologists and neuroscientists have been trying to understand how humans memorize different types of information, ranging from knowledge or facts to the recollection of ...

A newly identified cellular system monitors subtle variations in genetic coding, hinting at a hidden level of control over how genes are expressed.

Human genes are written in long strings of three-letter units composed of four different nucleotides. These units—or ...

Proteins, one of the smallest building blocks of life on Earth, hold promise for answering some of biology's biggest ...