Although heart cells and skin cells contain identical instructions for creating proteins encoded in their DNA, they're able ...

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine alumnus and former faculty member Hamilton O. Smith, M.D., whose 1978 Nobel Prize-winning discovery of restriction enzymes revolutionized genetic ...

Deep within the world's oceans lurk marine bacteria armed with plastic-munching enzymes, their evolution seemingly sculpted ...

Michael Buck, PhD, professor of biochemistry in the Jacobs School, recently received NIH funding to explore how molecular readers of DNA access and activate seemingly hidden genes.

A hidden structure inside the cell is rewriting how scientists understand leukemia. Beneath the microscope, what looked like ...

Beneath the ocean’s surface, bacteria have evolved specialized enzymes that can digest PET plastic, the material used in bottles and clothes. Researchers at KAUST discovered that a unique molecular ...

Talladega College, Alabama 's first private historically Black college, has sold four of six murals painted for the ...

CoV-2, has led to the first approval of mRNA vaccines in humans. By producing the full-length SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein, they ...

Honey holds a permanent place in the pantries of American households-a sweetener made of nature, revered for its gold color, ...