Now a new study in the journal Science details a devilishly devious bacterial strategy to thwart phages through ...

This study characterizes several novel activities of SARS-CoV-2 helicase nsp13, providing valuable insights into potentially new functions of this essential RNA-processing enzyme in the virus life ...

Shixin Liu is pioneering new ways of studying the tiny proteins that copy and read DNA in living cells. (Credit: Roshni ...

When humans started farming around 10,000 years ago, they reshaped their landscapes, diets, and social structures. A common ...

Scientists from Skoltech and the University of Potsdam have developed a physical theory that sheds light on how molecular ...

The results are transforming how scholars understand human history. By analysing parchment, researchers are uncovering ...

Researchers at the University of Minnesota Medical School have developed a new method called PARTAGE that provides a clearer picture of how the genome is regulated and disrupted in diseases like ...

Researchers have mapped how hundreds of everyday environmental and lifestyle exposures, from diet and pollution to social stressors, can collectively predict disease risk at levels that compete with ...

In 1869, Swiss scientist Friedrich Miescher isolated a mysterious substance from cell nuclei—an overlooked finding that would later reshape biology and our understanding of life itself. A ...

Scientists have discovered that a protein once thought to simply help load a factor necessary for the copying of DNA, actually plays a key role in ensuring fast and reliable replication—an insight ...

When cells proliferate, genomic DNA is precisely duplicated once per cell cycle. Abnormalities in this DNA replication process can cause alterations in genomic DNA, promoting cellular ageing, cancer, ...

Scientists searching for novel ways to fight cancer think they may have uncovered a promising new lead tucked away inside the cells of the bowhead whale. The findings, published in the journal Nature, ...