Inside human cells, biology has pulled off the ultimate packing job, figuring out how to fit six feet of DNA into a nucleus ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the oldest and deadliest infectious diseases we know. It commonly impacts the lungs, but can also ...

The DNA inside our cells is constantly being damaged, and one of the worst kinds of damage is a double-strand break—when both ...

New ultra-detailed imaging exposes the hidden structure and behavior of chromatin condensates — and hints at how their ...

We have long struggled to determine how the first living organisms on Earth came together. Now, surprising evidence hints ...

Tiny repeated stretches of DNA in your genome may quietly shape how your body works, how your brain develops and how you ...

Fluorogenic DNA aptamers produce light only in the correct structural state, enabling programmable molecular logic, ...

Three more papers on the samples brought back from asteroid Bennu reveal the place contains the building blocks of DNA and ...

A closeup look at colibactin’s structure reveals chemical motifs that guide its mutation-wreaking “warheads” to specific stretches of DNA.

This week in Science, Michael K. Rosen and 10 other members of a large collaboration at the Marine Biological Laboratory, the ...

Scientists discovered that the first 100 base pairs of human genes are unusually prone to mutations, especially during the ...

The asteroid Bennu continues to provide new clues to scientists' biggest questions about the formation of the early solar ...