Biology has always been an unruly science. Cells divide when they want to. Genes switch on and off like temperamental lights.

Seeing plastic trash while hiking inspired a Rutgers chemist to rethink why synthetic plastics last forever while natural ...

The revelation of DNA’s chemical structure made it possible to understand how it might replicate and direct the growth of ...

Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have revealed previously unappreciated roles for the retrotransposon LINE ...

Randomness inside cells can decide whether a cancer returns after chemotherapy or whether an infection survives antibiotics.

New research provides a mechanistic map of how genetic mutations disrupt RNA splicing in acute myeloid leukemia.

Researchers created the most detailed maps yet of the genome’s three-dimensional organization using human stem cells and ...

Research reveals that five DNA letters can switch chromatin between fluid and solid-like states, influencing gene ...

Faced with demographic collapse in her home country, the Chinese expert is conducting experiments on stem cells and human ...

Team from Würzburg, Braunschweig, and the US identifies Cas12a3 nuclease showing precise activity | Study just published in Nature ...

New DNA study of 777 genomes found across southern Europe and west Asia redirects the cradle of Indo-Europeans, sheds light ...

If nonliving materials can produce rich, organized mixtures of organic molecules, then the traditional signs we use to ...