Caltech researchers have identified a novel chemical reaction that could explain the formation of the building blocks of DNA and RNA, the molecules that encode all of life's functions. The work is an ...

A joint research team has developed an automated design technology that enables the creation of DNA origami structures that ...

Cells have evolved careful checks to ensure DNA is copied only once, but how they switch on replication at the right moment ...

Computational chemists at the University of Amsterdam's Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences have developed a ...

Scientists have discovered that a gene normally considered a DNA-protecting "good guy" can become dangerous when cells make too much of it. The gene, EXO1, acts like molecular scissors that help ...

Base editing in human embryos reveals that NANOG is the one gene required to form every body tissue. Cambridge’s landmark ...

What can the shape of the nucleolus tell us about a cell’s response to drugs? Researchers use advanced microscopy techniques ...

Vitamin B12 is needed in microscopic amounts, but a shortage can have major effects on health and energy. The vitamin was first linked to a lifesaving liver treatment for pernicious anemia nearly 100 ...

AI drug discovery cleared its first Phase IIa clinical test in 2025, as BIO 2026 confirmed the shift from speculation to ...

The treatment, currently designated HTX-001, is an antisense oligonucleotide, or ASO, that targets Wisper and reduces the ...

Researchers discover that messenger RNA discarded by laboratories is the biological key to preventing essential proteins from ...

A short regulatory peptide known as Bronchogen is attracting growing attention among researchers for its proposed role in ...