New research suggests DNA may not need activation, challenging a long-held idea about how life began and reshaping ...

The results are transforming how scholars understand human history. By analysing parchment, researchers are uncovering ...

Scientists show DNA polymerases can build long, patterned DNA without a template called "doodling," opening new paths for ...

A new study has uncovered a hidden step that helps the deadliest malaria parasite survive and multiply inside the human body. Researchers studying Plasmodium falciparum found that the parasite relies ...

A cancer drug target already being investigated in clinical trials turns out to be doing something even more consequential ...

Researchers have identified a physical process called “mitochondrial pearling” that explains how cells keep their ...

The Hormel Institute, University of Minnesota researchers are looking into how cancer cells respond to treatment with hydroxyurea, a commonly used chemotherapy drug. According to a release from ...

(Nanowerk News) By simulating the life cycle of a minimal bacterial cell — from DNA replication to protein translation to metabolism and cell division — scientists have opened a new frontier of ...

A simulated cell in the early stages of division. Left half shows cytoplasm (blue cubes), mRNA degradation machinery molecules (pink), and sugar transporters (brown). Right half adds the membrane ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — The New Haven Police Department said it has made an arrest in an alleged sexual assault case dating back more than a decade thanks to DNA technology. New Haven Special ...