About 40 million people worldwide are living with HIV infection. In the United Kingdom, there are approximately 100,000 ...

After a finite number of divisions, cells simply give up. As each round of replication trims their telomeres—the protective ...

Technologies needed for tracing engineered biothreats back to their sources are advancing rapidly. Here are some ...

The protein, reverse transcriptase, has become an essential tool for making DNA copies of RNA.

Inside cells, RNAs and proteins form tiny, liquid-like droplets called biomolecular condensates. These droplets are essential for organizing cellular life, yet why some RNAs cluster more readily than ...

Cornell (NY, USA) researchers have found that a new DNA sequencing technology can be used to study how transposons move ...

Joshua Lederberg, Nobel laureate and president of Rockefeller University, is well known in biology circles. Not so his wife, ...

When a gene is expressed, its DNA sequence is transcribed into a molecule known as RNA. Then the cell processes and edits ...

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

Inside every human cell, tiny mitochondria quietly convert nutrients into usable energy, keeping organs running and immune ...

Analysis of 135,000 participants reveals 11 genetic regions tied to delayed gratification and shows shared biology with ...