The same chemical that makes dark chocolate taste bitter could help slow the ticking of your biological clock. A new study ...

Using lung cancer biospecimens from the Sherlock-Lung study, an international team led by National Institutes of Health (NIH) ...

An international research team has identified a human protein, ANKLE1, as the first DNA-cutting enzyme (nuclease) in mammals ...

The field of dermatology has witnessed remarkable progress in the prevention and treatment of skin diseases over the past ...

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array detected significant amounts of methanol and hydrogen cyanide in ...

An investigation into cellular components in bacteria has unexpectedly uncovered a feature with relevance across many life ...

Inside every human cell, six feet of DNA folds into a nucleus that is only a few micrometers wide, yet still manages to ...

In the past twenty years, major technological advances in extracting and analyzing DNA have transformed the ability to ...

Scientists discovered ribose — in addition to “all five nucleobases used to construct both DNA and RNA” — on asteroid Bennu, ...

Each cell in a plant, animal, or person contains millions, or even billions, of DNA base pairs—molecules connected by hydrogen bonds that are the building blocks of DNA. These base pairs collectively ...

DNA: it carries hereditary information, it helps solve crimes, and now it can act as a flame retardant? What can’t this ...