Randomness inside cells can decide whether a cancer returns after chemotherapy or whether an infection survives antibiotics.

A reduced genome in an island species raises evolutionary questions.

A new study from Bar-Ilan University shows that one of sleep's core functions originated hundreds of millions of years ago in ...

Protons, the positively charged particles that help build every atom in our bodies, are starting to look less like classical ...

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Scientists analyzing the DNA of Maria Branyas, who died at 117, suggest her DNA offers insights into exceptional longevity.

While the central dogma of molecular biology outlines the linear flow of genetic information from DNA to RNA to proteins (black lines), glycomics introduces a “3rd code of life”—glycans—that operates ...

Although it also performs some functions in men, estrogen, the main female sex hormone, is involved in a myriad of processes, ...

Google's new AI tool can read DNA like a language, and see immediately if a word substitution will change the meaning of that sentence, the company says. — © AFP ...