It's a common storytelling trope: the stubborn foe who is eventually revealed to be a much-needed friend. Biology has its own ...

These sequences are extremely prone to mutations and rank among the most functionally important regions in the entire human ...

The US Food and Drug Administration cleared a number of molecular tests and immunoassays, as well as a clinical chemistry and a cellular deformation test.

Humans have it. So does Drosophila. But not yeast. That "it" is a small pause at the start of gene activity—a brief molecular halt that may have helped life evolve from simple cells to complex animals ...

RNA is usually portrayed as a molecule that works deep inside the cell, helping to turn genetic information into proteins.

WIRED spoke with DeepMind’s Pushmeet Kohli about the recent past—and promising future—of the Nobel Prize-winning research ...

Changing just one atom in a COVID-19 vaccine lipid redirects delivery from the liver to the spleen, improving tumor ...

An analysis of CIRDC, dissecting the polymicrobial nature of the syndrome and outlining standards for diagnostic testing.

Spanish researchers have created a powerful new open-source tool that helps uncover the hidden genetic networks driving ...

To ensure that protein production in our cells runs smoothly, the protein complex NAC slows down the rate of protein ...