Could yeast and humans be any more different? Going by looks alone, probably not. But peering into our genomes reveals ...
Scientists found a virus-like living entity in human bodies named "obelisks" - small loops of RNA, each a thousand genetic ...
Theoretical and computational analyses reveal environmental, compositional, kinetic, and thermodynamic constraints on a scenario where sequence information collectively stored in pools of RNA ...
The rate of HIV infection continues to climb globally. Around 40 million people live with HIV-1, the most common HIV strain.
The rate of HIV infection continues to climb globally. Around 40 million people live with HIV-1, the most common HIV ...
The 55th Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award for Distinguished Work in Basic Medical Research has been awarded to professor Steven ...
They observe how the mobile DNA LINE-1 copies its sequence in human cells, revealing the precise mechanism of the ORF2p gene.
We’re celebrating 180 years of Scientific American. Explore our legacy of discovery and look ahead to the future. In 1957, just four years after Francis Crick and other scientists solved the riddle of ...