A cancer drug target already being investigated in clinical trials turns out to be doing something even more consequential ...

A group of nerve cells essential for cognition may be especially vulnerable to DNA damage upon exposure to inflammation in MS.

Some of your most important life partners are the mitochondria that power all your cells. You and these little cellular ...

Scientists are finding ways to merge biology with electronics, unlocking new possibilities for data storage and computing.

Researchers at the Université de Genève have built a DNA-based drug delivery system that reads pairs of protein markers on a ...

Researchers have unveiled CREsted, a comprehensive software powerhouse. CREsted doesn’t just describe how DNA works; it allows scientists to design entirely new, synthetic enhancers—short DNA ...

Life begins with a quiet but precise choreography inside the nucleus. For decades, scientists believed that a newly ...

Tunable DNA hairpin springs stretch millions of protein copies under piconewton tension, enabling bulk biochemical discovery ...

One example of this potential comes from studies on glioblastoma, an aggressive brain tumor with few effective treatments.

A sample collected by the Hayabusa 2 spacecraft from the spinning top-like asteroid contained the nucleobases adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine, and uracil. When you purchase through links on our ...

All five of the main ingredients for DNA and RNA have been found in samples from the asteroid Ryugu. This strengthens the idea that asteroids may have brought the ingredients for the first living ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Scientists are trying to sequence the DNA of Leonardo da Vinci to identify if the remains at his interment site really are his. The project began ...