Researchers are edging closer to something long imagined but never quite within reach: a single vaccine platform that could be adapted to fight many kinds of cancer. Early experiments in animals and ...

From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

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The Ocean Genome Legacy Center and other biorepositories like it are increasingly crucial to climate change research as ...

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.

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

From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterrestrial life is starting to ...

The study, which was published in the journal Science Advances, links indoor tanning to a three-times greater risk of ...

These genes are part of the non-coding genome, which makes up about 98% of our DNA and was long dismissed as “junk.” This new ...