Proteins, one of the smallest building blocks of life on Earth, hold promise for answering some of biology's biggest ...

A sample collected by the Hayabusa 2 spacecraft from the spinning top-like asteroid contained the nucleobases adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine, and uracil.

The Glucose Goddess' Jessie Inchauspé, biochemist and bestselling author, reveals the extraordinary power mothers hold to ...

Microplastics gather anti-biotic resistant bacteria as they move through water, allowing microbes to spread from polluted sites into rivers.

Scientists have built atom-sized pores that act like living ion channels, opening the door to next-generation nanotech.

If NIH prioritizes human-based science in its ongoing overhaul of biosafety policies, the oversight system that has evolved for review of a wide-swath of biological research could atrophy and expose ...

I don’t really see the point of grafting onto him our vision of what he ought to have been doing. I’m interested in trying to ...

Cells in our bodies produce RNA based on genetic information stored in DNA, and RNA serves as a blueprint for making proteins ...

When a virus infects a bacterial cell, the viral genome is the first component to be fully injected into the cell, making it an ideal immune target. A bacterial enzyme anchored to the membrane ...

The database of 200 million protein-structure predictions now includes homodimers, adding new biological relevance.