A remarkably small bacterium containing fewer than 500 genes serves as the basis for one of the most detailed digital life ...

Your body might be aging faster every time you hang out with that friend who always needs rescuing, that colleague who turns everything into a competition, or that family member who dismisses your ...

The COVID-19 pandemic brought messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines to the forefront of global health care. After their clinical trial stages, the first COVID-19 mRNA vaccine was administered on 8 December ...

Researchers at Cardiff University have uncovered how a particularly severe form of DNA damage arises—shedding new light on mutation processes that contribute to cancer and inherited genetic conditions ...

With aging populations on the rise, the need for better tools to diagnose and monitor Alzheimer's disease (AD), the most common cause of dementia, has never been more urgent. This disease is ...

In July 2021, Justin Andrew Wilke was convicted of conspiracy, theft of public property, depredation of public property, trafficking in unlawfully harvested timber, and attempting to traffic in ...

Scientists have uncovered how brewer’s yeast developed its unusually tiny centromeres, the DNA regions that guide chromosome separation during cell division. By studying related yeast species, ...

Purdue University researcher Emily Dykhuizen explores how cancer takes advantage of the machinery that surrounds DNA, enabling some of its most pernicious powers, like the ability to evade the immune ...

Antonio Wiley’s mother, Anita, vanished during a time when her hometown Detroit was wracked by drugs and crime. It took three decades and an extraordinary effort by a missing persons detective to ...

If any organism could survive getting catapulted off the surface of Mars and drifting through interplanetary space, this would be the one. The question was whether it could handle the initial violence ...

Taking a multivitamin every day might slightly slow the rate of ageing, but the extent to which this is relevant to our health is unclear ...

Every second, hundreds to thousands of molecules move through thousands of nuclear pores in each of your cells. A new high-definition view reveals the machine in action.