Apart from carrying the information to encode proteins in, RNA molecules can adopt intricate 2D and 3D structures.

Although outbreaks of Ebola virus are rare, the disease is severe and often fatal, with few treatment options. Rather than ...

Complex regions of the human genome remained uncharted, even after researchers sequenced the genome in its entirety. That is, ...

Apart from carrying the information to encode proteins in, RNA molecules can adopt intricate 2D and 3D structures. Specifically, the same RNA molecule ...

Zebrafish can regrow hearing cells we can't, and scientists have just found two genes that may explain how. This discovery ...

Human eggs stay dormant for decades by slowing down their waste disposal systems, according to new research involving over ...

Scientists create smart cells that administer automatic treatments from inside the human body, reacting within seconds to ...

PROTEUS, a system designed to harness “directed evolution,” can speed the process up by years, or even decades.

“You could see little parts of the human cell being broken off,” Ralston said of her very first encounter with the parasite. In 2014, she published her initial findings in Nature on the ...

For the first time, researchers have discovered and isolated adult stem cells from a non-human primate. This finding could ...