Proteins are the infinitely varied chemicals that make cells work, and science has a pretty good idea how they are made. But ...

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

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

A new DNA model suggests humans didn't reach Australia until 50,000 years ago, but archaeological data disagrees.

Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have reconciled two closely related but contentious mechanisms underlying ...

Human DNA contains roughly 3 billion letters of genetic code. However, we understand only a fraction of what this vast ...

Did you know that a small molecule called NAD+ plays a critical role in our aging process? A deficiency of this molecule may ...

No longer a mere assistant who carries out the commands of DNA, RNA takes the lead in emerging therapeutics.

Google DeepMind has introduced a new AI tool called AlphaGenome. It reads long stretches of human DNA and predicts ...

Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have reconciled two closely related but contentious mechanisms underlying transcription, the ...

Perhaps best known as a immune-system boost or antidote to scurvy, vitamin C has been found to rejuvenate aging skin by ...

Fred Hutch researchers have created a gene-expression map of glial cells of the tiny worm, C. elegans, adding the missing ...