At MIT, one genome researcher is testing a different approach. Bin Zhang, associate professor of chemistry and the leader of ...

Scientists have discovered DNA’s building blocks inside ancient meteorites, suggesting that life’s origins may be extraterrestrial. These space rocks, which landed on Earth billions of years ago, ...

Complex neural circuits likely arose independently in birds and mammals, suggesting that vertebrates evolved intelligence ...

Inside every human cell, 2 meters of DNA is crammed into a nucleus that is only one-hundredth of a millimeter in diameter.To ...

Ribonucleic acid (RNA) molecules may be best known for their job ferrying the genetic information encoded in DNA to a cell's ...

Sunlight feels good on your skin, especially on a clear day. It brings warmth and helps your body produce vitamin D. But ...

By creating a more true-to-life representation of DNA's environment, researchers at Northwestern University have discovered that strand separation - the essential process a "resting" double helix ...

Several human pathogens exploit the kinetic forces generated by polymerizing actin to power their intracellular motility. Human cell-autonomous immune responses activate ...

May 5, 2025 — Muscle cells contain their own circadian clocks and disrupting them with shift work can have a profound impact on aging, according to new ... New Molecular Label Could Lead to ...

This valuable study presents an analysis of evolutionary conservation in intrinsically disordered regions, identified as key drivers of phase separation, leveraging a protein language model. The ...

The spatial organization of biomolecules helps orchestrate a range of biological processes; however, links between spatial organization ... and manipulation of DNA, RNA and protein in engineered ...