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 ...

Fluorogenic DNA aptamers produce light only in the correct structural state, enabling programmable molecular logic, ...

The beauty of the DNA code is that organisms interpret it unambiguously. Each three-letter nucleotide sequence, or codon, in a gene codes for a unique ...

A song from childhood can hit you out of nowhere. A smell can carry you back decades. Then again, yesterday’s errands fade ...

As big pharmas including Takeda and Novo Nordisk flee the cell therapy space and smaller biotechs shutter their operations, these players are sticking around to take the modality as far as it can go.

This week, Svante Pääbo, Nobel Prize winner for sequencing the Neanderthal genome, is visiting Estonia. In an interview with ...

Proponents tout biotin's potential benefits for hair, nails and more. But do they offer benefits for some people more than others? And how necessary are the supplements? Start the day smarter. Get all ...

Degradation mechanisms of transcriptionally active aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AHR) are unclear. This work reveals that PARP7 ...

A high waist-to-hip ratio is a stronger predictor than overall obesity, and German radiologists have linked it to structural ...

The mechanism of HIV-1 genome uncoating is currently not well understood. This work shows that capsid-targeting drugs lay ...