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 ...

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

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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 ...

From CASP to the Virtual Cell Challenge, researchers are leveraging science competitions and high-risk, high-reward grants to ...

If phosphorus is so critical to life, how did early biology predating cells first use it ... Although P-loop NTPases are diverse in structure, they share a common motif called a P-loop. This component ...

Background: Geniposidic acid (GPA) has been reported to possess hypoglycemic, hypolipidemic, and choleretic properties. However, its efficacy against hyperlipidemia and the associated mechanisms ...