Researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory found that Dicer, an ancient RNA-cutting protein shared by humans and yeast, ...

Cells contain a blueprint in the form of DNA that dictates what they can make. This blueprint is converted into a message ...

Could yeast and humans be any more different? Going by looks alone, probably not. But peering into our genomes reveals ...

The rate of HIV infection continues to climb globally. Around 40 million people live with HIV-1, the most common HIV strain.

A study reveals how RNA modifications regulate the transformation of stem cells into retinal cells. The protein METTL3, which ...

Leiden researchers, led by Sebastian Pomplun, have developed a new method to screen hundreds of thousands of molecules for ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have cracked the DNA code of the longest living mammal, the bowhead whale, revealing a mechanism that could potentially prolong the human lifespan ...

Within each cell, there is a constant struggle between life-sustaining molecules and molecules that could hasten its demise.

More than four billion years ago, Earth was a very different place. Pools of water froze and thawed in cycles, minerals shaped reactions, and molecules bumped into each other by chance. Out of this ...

02 February 2023, Hesse, Marburg: A press spokeswoman points to a plasmid model at the Görzhausen I Biontech site. Photo: Sebastian Christoph Gollnow/dpa (Photo by Sebastian Christoph Gollnow/picture ...