Researchers from the HUN-REN Szeged Biological Research Centre and HCEMM have just published a new study suggesting that it's ...

For decades, biologists have known that the instructions for life are written in DNA, yet the vast majority of those letters seemed to sit in the dark, doing little that was obvious. Now a new ...

In 1869, Swiss scientist Friedrich Miescher isolated a mysterious substance from cell nuclei—an overlooked finding that would ...

The cytokine-producing signal protein, a target for drug hunters, has additional activators that could be manipulated ...

Mapping diverse mutations within a cancer hotspot revealed that distinct variants drive tumor growth to different extents, which could guide anticancer therapies.

Researchers reckon it could dramatically accelerate understanding of how DNA influences disease, cancer, and drug discovery.

It could transform our understanding of why diseases develop and the medicines needed to treat them, says researchers.

DNA origami cages constrain individual proteins toward preferred orientations on electrodes, dramatically improving electrical measurement precision and enabling detection of subtle structural changes ...

Your next favorite true crime podcast might have some new forensics jargon to make sense of. Researchers in Australia have developed a new way to identify humans – similar to how we do with DNA and ...

Artificial intelligence isn’t just changing how we search the web or generate images. It is reshaping how scientists approach one of biology’s oldest problems: the folding of proteins. Google DeepMind ...

Tanning bed usage can cause DNA damage, mutate skin cells beyond ordinary sun exposure and increase the risk of melanoma by nearly three times, according to a Northwestern University study published ...

Introduction: The polo-like kinase 1 (PLK1), a master key mitotic regulator, is frequently expressed in various types of cancers and associated with poor prognosis. The missense mutations in PLK1 may ...