Ancient viral fossils buried in our DNA are offering fresh clues about how today’s respiratory pathogens infect and spread. By tracing the shared architecture between long-extinct retroviruses and ...

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

UCLA scientists have characterized the structure and function of a key survival protein in breast cancer cells that helps ...

In an effort to reveal the inner workings of a protein that serves as a cell's damage detection system, scientists at Johns ...

A multi-institute team led by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and UT Southwestern Medical Center investigators ...

When a cell receives a message from outside, it generates a molecule called cyclic AMP (cAMP) to relay this message. To ...

UCLA scientists have characterized the structure and function of a key survival protein in breast cancer cells that helps ...

Life's instructions are written in DNA, but it is the enzyme RNA polymerase II (Pol II) that reads the script, transcribing ...

Researchers found that using mental models—visual, verbal, or animated—helps people understand mRNA vaccination science, counter misconceptions, and reduce misinformation spread.