Biologists are quietly rewriting what it means to be alive, and the human body has become one of their strangest frontiers.

Insects thrive in incredibly diverse and challenging environments. While we now know that nutrient-sensing pathways, ...

Researchers from Kyushu University have developed an innovative computational method, called ddHodge, that can reconstruct ...

Researchers identify a shared RNA-protein interaction that could lead to broad-spectrum antiviral treatments for ...

In the damp understory of forests in Taiwan, mainland Japan, and Okinawa, a plant called Balanophora can fool you at first ...

What scientists long believed were knots in DNA may actually be persistent twists formed during nanopore analysis, revealing ...

Researchers in Sweden recovered RNA from a 130-year-old Tasmanian tiger, allowing them to identify which genes were active in its tissues before extinction.

Salinity and drought represent two of the most critical abiotic constraints limiting global crop productivity and threatening food security amid escalating ...

Calcium (Ca2+) drives many cellular functions, though the way it controls quality of proteins in the endoplasmic reticulum ...

It has been claimed that because most of our DNA is active, it must be important, but now human-plant hybrid cells have been ...

Using a novel method, Weizmann Institute researchers map 16 types of simultaneous changes in dozens of samples; findings can ...

A research team at the University of California, Davis, has shown that cabernet sauvignon vines carry stable epigenetic ...