Biologists have uncovered a new mode of communication inside cells that helps bacterial pathogens learn how to evade drugs.

Researchers find obelisks, mysterious RNA molecules in human bacteria that challenge our understanding of viruses and ...

Scientists have developed a new DNA test that could detect 18 different types of early-stage cancers in a concept study representing all the major organs of the human body. The new findings could kick ...

In A Nutshell Scientists discovered a 5,500-year-old form of the bacteria that causes syphilis in remains from Colombia, the oldest evidence of these diseases by more than 3,000 years. The ancient ...

While most known types of DNA damage are fixed by our cells' in-house DNA repair mechanisms, some forms of DNA damage evade repair and can persist for many years, new research shows. This means that ...

Some people actually have more than one biological identity embedded in their bodies, a rare and often harmless biological ...

A team of researchers has announced the discovery of a unique DNA nanostructure that appears to be common across all types of ...

Today (September 19), the Lasker Foundation announced this year’s winners of the Lasker Awards. Zhijian “James” Chen, a biochemist at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, was awarded ...

In a way, sequencing DNA is very simple: There's a molecule, you look at it, and you write down what you find. You'd think it would be easy—and, for any one letter in the sequence, it is. The problem ...

Foods including red and processed meat have been frequently linked to cancer. A new study suggests that this could be because of the cooking process – food cooked at high heats could damage the DNA in ...