Emphasising that early detection and affordability are the two biggest challenges in addressing genetic and rare diseases, ...

The new findings strengthen the "RNA world" hypothesis that describes how the first life on Earth could have used RNA instead ...

Gene therapy ‘switch’ may offer non-addictive pain relief. New approach targets pain signals while leaving the rest of the brain untouched.

Inspired by biological systems, materials scientists have long sought to harness self-assembly to build nanomaterials. The ...

For decades, biology textbooks taught that DNA’s story could be told with a single image: two elegant strands twisting in a ...

Building on their existing collaboration, the companies have signed a new agreement to focus on lead optimization of drug candidates identified by Variational AI’s Enki™ generative AI platform and ...

The revelation of DNA’s chemical structure made it possible to understand how it might replicate and direct the growth of ...

Biology has always been an unruly science. Cells divide when they want to. Genes switch on and off like temperamental lights.

New math model controls biological noise at single-cell level, offering a path to tackle cancer relapse and drug resistance.

A little-used federal law is being activated in ways that could turn immigration screening into the backbone of a far-reaching DNA surveillance system ...

Randomness inside cells can decide whether a cancer returns after chemotherapy or whether an infection survives antibiotics.

New research shows how RNA, a key molecule for life, may have formed on early Earth using simple chemistry and materials delivered by asteroid impacts, linking space science with the origins of life ...