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

An innovative three-color method for capturing images of mRNA inside live mammalian cells has been developed by UMass Amherst chemists. Because RNA is both incredibly important to human life and ...

Research into how a father’s choices — such as diet, exercise, stress, nicotine use — may transfer traits to his children has ...

All living organisms face the problem of parasites — entities that thrive on others, often at the hosts’ expense. As a result, life is characterized by the presence of defence systems that keep such ...

A newly revealed molecular tug-of-war may have implications for better understanding how a multitude of diseases and ...

Imagine if you could fix a spelling mistake in a long document with just one click. Now, imagine doing the same with the genetic code of a plant or even a human cell. That’s ...

The Arctic Ocean current is at its warmest in the last 125,000 years, and temperatures continue to rise. Due to these warming ...

WIRED spoke with DeepMind’s Pushmeet Kohli about the recent past—and promising future—of the Nobel Prize-winning research ...

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

A research team at Florida State University's Institute of Molecular Biophysics and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry has discovered how a protein found in the human body interacts with RNA in ...