With the long-term goal of creating living cells from non-living components, scientists in the field of synthetic biology work with RNA origami. This tool uses the multifunctionality of the natural ...

Stephen Paul Gale, the suspect in a 1989 double rape case who was living on a luxury yacht before his arrest, is now claiming ...

Cambridge University researchers have uncovered evidence that two distinct populations of ancient hominins, separated for ...

A new part of an ocean plant cell has been discovered that might revolutionize farming one day. The structure can take ...

"Our history is far richer and more complex than we imagined," said human evolutionary geneticist Aylwyn Scally.

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe.

Raziel Green, 52, an active runner and mother of two, was diagnosed with a rare form of ALS in 2017. Since starting a clinical trial nearly eight years ago, her symptoms have not gotten any worse.

This research topic focuses on the exploration and analysis of alternative nucleic acid structures within microbial systems, ...

New findings show that the mitochondria powering our cells also control the ability of a DNA repair protein to suppress the senescence-associated secretory phenotype (SASP), which causes zombie-like ...

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have identified a novel trigger of a deadly form of ovarian cancer: a subset of ...