Scientists are unraveling the mystery of what triggers Huntington’s disease, a devastating and fatal hereditary disorder that ...

Scientists from Delft, Vienna, and Lausanne discovered that the protein machines that shape our DNA can switch direction.

Imagine a city under constant threat from invaders. The city's defense system deploys a sophisticated anti-missile defense ...

Your body is a collection of cells carrying thousands of genetic mistakes accrued over a lifetime—many harmless, some bad and ...

"Lipocartilage" possesses properties similar to bubble wrap—super-stable, soft, and, springy. An international research team ...

Venki Ramakrishnan’s book is an excellent introduction to ongoing research and has good advice on how to age well.

Oxman was a rock star researcher at MIT. Now she wants to build the wildest innovation lab of the 21st century. Four hundred ...

Proteins are fundamental to life. They are involved in virtually every process within our bodies, from catalyzing chemical ...

The Fortune 500 pharma giant will sequence the exomes of 10 million people, with the goal of developing new therapies and ...

Illustration of the same scenario, but rendered in a machine-like depiction. The chain represents DNA which is folded into a loop by the SMC machine. The red and green labelled parts are the NIPBL ...

Two newly identified disease-causing genes, known as Bzw2 and Eif5a2, have been implicated in early prostate cancer ...