Researchers uncovered millions of ancient plant DNA switches—some older than flowering plants themselves—revealing a hidden evolutionary blueprint stretching back 400 million years. Most people have ...

The story of life’s beginnings gets stranger when you look closely at viruses. These tiny entities seem to sit at the edge of ...

A DNA test could help match patients with psychiatric medications, potentially reducing the long and frustrating ...

Across the animal kingdom, evolution has opened the door to a growing scientific quest to understand what a menagerie of ...

Purdue University researcher Emily Dykhuizen explores how cancer takes advantage of the machinery that surrounds DNA, enabling some of its most pernicious powers, like the ability to evade the immune ...

Christine Dunham is a leading expert on the ribosome—an elaborate macro-molecular machine that operates like a factory within ...

Police hunting for the 'Beast of Birkenhead' after the wrong man spent 38 years in jail are turning their attention to DNA found at the murder scene. They hope 'familial' DNA searches could track the ...

How does DNA structure itself from the very first moments of life? A team of researchers has just observed that DNA adopts a defined three-dimensional architecture much more rapidly than ...

Narinder Dhillon of Punjab is known as the ‘prince of pumpkin’ across continents. See how he aims to change the world, a little, by breeding hardier cucurbits.

That superhero is a gene called TP53, and for decades scientists have known it as the “guardian of the genome.” In a healthy cell, TP53 acts like both a brake and an emergency stop button. When DNA ...

Nicole Kidman and Rosy McEwen portray Patricia Cornwell's famous forensic medical examiner in Prime Video's "Scarpetta," the first time the character has been on screen.

As a physician who prescribes GLP-1 medications like Ozempic, Wegovy, semaglutide, and tirzepatide, I explain why increasing ...