It has been claimed that because most of our DNA is active, it must be important, but now human-plant hybrid cells have been ...

What scientists long believed were knots in DNA may actually be persistent twists formed during nanopore analysis, revealing ...

Although it also performs some functions in men, estrogen, the main female sex hormone, is involved in a myriad of processes, ...

A research group has developed a novel and highly accessible technology for producing uniform biomolecular condensates using ...

The new storage system could hold family photos, cultural artifacts and the master versions of digital artworks, movies, ...

Transposable elements are stretches of DNA that can move around the genome. Many of these DNA sequences originate from long ago, when viruses inserted their genetic material into our ancestors' ...

Researchers identify a shared RNA-protein interaction that could lead to broad-spectrum antiviral treatments for ...

As antibiotic-resistant infections rise and are projected to cause up to 10 million deaths per year by 2050, scientists are looking to bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria, as an alternative.

Scientists have created the first comprehensive map of DNA quadruplexes, fleeting knot-like structures that play an outsized ...

The human genome is no longer just a sequence to be read. It’s a dynamic structure that twists, folds, and reshapes itself in ...