When the Empire State Building was constructed, its 102 stories rose above midtown one piece at a time, with each individual ...

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have revealed the structure of a key protein involved in ...

Imagine if you could "print" a tiny skyscraper using DNA instead of steel. That’s what researchers at Columbia and Brookhaven are doing—constructing intricate 3D nanostructures by harnessing the ...

Recognition of a DNA mismatch by a dimeric MutS protein initiates a cascade of reactions and results in repair of the newly synthesized strand; however, details of the molecular mechanism remain ...

An unusual DNA structure may hold the key to treating one of the deadliest cancers affecting women, which claims over 200,000 ...

A glucose-sensitive nanovaccine delivers CRISPR to tumors, silences immune-suppressing genes, and activates a targeted immune response against cancer.

A Ph.D. graduate student in biomolecular engineering at UC Santa Cruz, with a background in computer science and mathematics, ...

Franklin W. Stahl, an American molecular biologist whose landmark 1957-58 experiment with colleague Matthew Meselson revealed ...

Reactions that alter organic scaffolds by a single atom are already proving useful, but time will tell if they’ll ...

UC Riverside scientists built a molecular silicon switch that controls electricity using quantum interference instead of ...