When a woman becomes pregnant, the outcome of that pregnancy depends on many things — including a crucial event that happened while she was still growing inside her own mother’s womb.

Researchers at Duke University used CRISPR technologies to discover previously unannotated stretches of DNA in the "dark ...

Organelles spit out DNA contaminated with damaging components, leading to the activation of inflammatory enzymes, mouse ...

When a key protein regulator dials down DNA repair mechanisms, our cells accumulate more mutations, which may cause us to age faster ...

A common bacterium was genetically engineered to eat a plastic-derived molecule and then digest it to produce the everyday ...

They derive their energy from differences in the concentration of hydrogen ions across some of these membranes ...

Life cycles require the creation of an autonomous individual, that individual’s growth and that individual’s reproduction In ...

Just as life pulsates in big vibrant cities, it also prospers in crowded environments inside cells. The interior of cells is ...

Tick-borne encephalitis virus can infect the nervous system and cause life-threatening illness. Finding the cellular gateway ...

A multinational research team has discovered a mysterious tubular structure — previously unknown in any organism — within ...