A new study finds the proteins responsible for controlling which genes are expressed in a genome do more than simply turn a ...

Protein droplets serve important biological functions within cells, but in neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's, these ...

Cyanobacteria—ancient microbes that oxygenated Earth and made complex life possible—are still revealing surprises billions of ...

Preclinical evaluation in mice assessed the potential of the Nanobiotix Nanoprimer to overcome common barriers faced by lipid ...

The Breakthrough Prize Foundation awarded researchers involved in developing gene therapies for blindness and sickle cell ...

Synthetic biologists were tantalized by the idea of making mirror images of microbes. Then things got complicated.

The ability of different genetic variants—changes to one or more building blocks of DNA—to cause disease, and to what extent, ...

Just in case this mythological robe wasn’t shrouded in enough mystery. Analysis has revealed DNA belonging to plants, animals and even people of Indian descent on the Shroud of Turin, deepening the ...

On Monday, a paper announcing that all four DNA bases had been found on an asteroid sparked a lot of headlines. But many of the headlines omitted a key word needed to put the discovery in context: ...

No “sticky ends”? No problem. A new study by NYU chemists finds that DNA tiles can assemble into 3D structures without the sticky cohesion of hydrogen bonding. This finding, published in Nature ...

Most people alive today carry fragments of Neanderthal DNA in their genome. Now scientists are gaining a more intimate understanding of the ancient encounters that put it there. By Carl Zimmer One of ...