He and a colleague proved a theory advanced by the Nobel Prize winners James Watson and Francis Crick, who discovered DNA’s ...

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

In the ongoing fight against HIV, scientists have taken a new step toward long-term control of the virus. Researchers have ...

Imagine if you could "print" a tiny skyscraper using DNA instead of steel. That’s what researchers at Columbia and Brookhaven ...

Researchers discovered a previously unknown function of RNA, potentially opening the door to new ways to treat cancer and neurodegenerative diseases.

If measured from beginning to end, the DNA in our cells is too long to fit into the cell's nucleus, explaining why it must be ...

Researchers have found a new way to optimise the design molecular motors, bringing us one step closer to making synthetic molecular machines a reality ...

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

A University of Alberta research team has identified a DNA structure that activates the immune system in cancer cells that are usually resistant to ...

Your DNA is continually damaged by sources both inside and outside your body. One especially severe form of damage called a double-strand break ...

By analyzing ancient DNA, scientists determined when, where and how our ancestors got sick from infectious diseases.