Genetic tweaks allowed early humans to stand, balance and walk on two legs instead of moving on all fours like other primates, according to researchers.

At times, aging doesn’t become evident in wrinkles or in gray hair, it occurs deep inside your body, in cells that have ...

The RAD52-DNA complex is a dynamic guardian of genomic stability. When this balance falters, cells may either self-destruct or, worse, turn cancerous.

But while COVID-19 vaccines are the best-known application of mRNA to date, they're far from the first. RNA has a similar ...

This important study presents a thoughtful design and characterization of chimeric influenza hemagglutinin (HA) head domains combining elements of distinct receptor-binding sites. The results provide ...

An artificial intelligence model predicts how brain immune cells react to RNA and DNA nanoparticles, helping scientists design safer and more effective nucleic acid therapies faster.

New research from the University of Wisconsin–Madison reveals that dysfunction in a protein essential to maintaining ...

Researchers used cryo-EM to study how the HIV enzyme integrase arranges in 3D to slip its DNA into the host genome and pack ...

Cancer treatment has always been a balancing act—hit the tumor hard enough to kill it, but not so hard that the patient ...

For decades, scientists believed the essence of life was written solely in four chemical bases: A, C, T, and G. Together, ...

The 55th Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award for Distinguished Work in Basic Medical Research has been awarded to professor Steven ...

Scientists reengineered chemo drug into spherical nucleic acids (SNAs), a globular form of DNA. Team tested the repackaged ...