AI maps fleeting DNA quadruplexes, revealing paired structures that control genes in healthy cells and cancer.

Life may have emerged from a surprisingly simple network of chemical reactions long before cells or genes existed.

A new study shows, for the first time, how the human genome folds and moves in 3D over time to control when genes turn on and ...

Scientists have identified a new ultraviolet‑absorbing compound in microscopic algae that functions as a natural shield ...

Fossils can reveal far more than the shapes of ancient creatures. Molecules preserved inside old animal bones provide clues about past diseases, what those animals ate, and the climates they lived in.

Although it also performs some functions in men, estrogen, the main female sex hormone, is involved in a myriad of processes, ...

Researchers at the CNIO show that oestrogens regulate gene expression by changing DNA supercoiling. Hormone-activated ...

Estrogens, the main female sex hormone, although they also perform some functions in men, are involved in a myriad of ...

Oestrogens, the main female sex hormone, although they also perform some functions in men, are involved in a myriad of processes, which is why the ...

One key component might be RNA, a molecular cousin of DNA found in every form of life on Earth, and now scientists say they ...

When NASA scientists opened the sample return canister from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample mission in late 2023, they found ...

A sleep-inducing molecule humans use to make proteins was found, along with other amino acids, on an asteroid named Bennu.