According to research from a team at the University of Utah Health and the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine, ...

Increasing paternal age has been linked to elevated health risks for the next generation, including higher risks of obesity ...

The so-called ticking biological clock has been framed largely as a concern for women. We talk about egg freezing, ovarian ...

Increasing paternal age has been linked to elevated health risks for the next generation, including higher risks of obesity ...

Learn more about the DNA and RNA that sperm carry and how they may suddenly change during midlife.

The sperm is not a passive supplier of genetic material to the egg. A study from Linköping University, Sweden, shows that certain molecules that come with the sperm, so-called micro-RNA, contribute to ...

Research into how a father’s choices — such as diet, exercise, stress, nicotine use — may transfer traits to his children has become impossible to ignore. The standard sperm-meets-egg story posits ...

Once dismissed as “junk,” a group of RNA molecules has been found to help regrow damaged nerves in mice in new research. The discovery could unlock new ways to treat nerve injuries and even restore ...

Science equipment is displayed in a lab at the University at Albany’s RNA Institute. The institute is getting a $50 million expansion to make space for more research and to get discoveries ready for ...

Boosting levels of a certain molecule that declines with age was found to restore memory and brain function in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) models – not just by improving energy metabolism, as previously ...