Our understanding of both clogged arteries and the building blocks of dna are thanks to the groundbreaking work of Dr. Marie ...

Since the 1950s, humanity has been searching for extraterrestrial life with increasingly sophisticated tools. But after ...

Northwestern Medicine scientists have uncovered a surprising link between a tiny cellular engine and the way cancer cells ...

Centuries-old genetic material can solve historical mysteries, from lost species to what killed Napoleon’s army.

One of the most elegant theories about the origins of life on our planet is that it was kick-started by a delivery from outer ...

Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have shown that DNA inflexibility, or rigidity, inside the ...

The US Patent and Trademark Office has issued a new patent (US Patent No. 12,472,263) on additional and novel formulations of ...

We have long struggled to determine how the first living organisms on Earth came together. Now, surprising evidence hints that poorly understood prions may have been the vital missing ingredient ...

Inside every cell, a finely tuned metabolic network determines when to build, recycle, or stop producing essential molecules. A central part of this network is folate metabolism, a process that ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Watson attended the University of Chicago at age 15, initially intending to become an ...

NUDT5 enzyme acts as a molecular scaffold that maintains metabolic balance. Inside every cell, a finely tuned metabolic network determines when to build, recycle or stop producing essential molecules.