A gel held together entirely by interlocking DNA rings exhibits mechanical properties unlike any conventional gel, driven ...

Every second, hundreds to thousands of molecules move through thousands of nuclear pores in each of your cells. A new high-definition view reveals the machine in action.

Can the bend of a banana give us insight into cancer? What does the shape of a rice grain have to do with infertility? The ...

The cold season is in full swing, throats are scratchy and noses are running. We feel ill and hope it is not the flu. The ...

Nobel laureate James Watson was expelled from his own laboratory after controversial racial statements that shook the scientific world.

According to Li-Qun Gu, DNA is an extremely compact, stable package of information. Natural DNA strands encode the biological blueprints of all life on Earth but ...

By Hugo Francisco de Souza Trained on genomic data spanning the tree of life, Evo 2 reveals how artificial intelligence can ...

All complex biological systems—like the DNA, RNA and proteins constantly being copied and built within our cells—are prone to errors. That means as life evolved to be more elaborate, it also had to ...

A recent study utilizing cryo-EM advances our understanding of how bacterial immune systems function and reveals new aspects ...

There is a silence in the night sky that has bothered me for as long as I can remember. ” That observation, attributed to ...