Cancer research, drug safety testing and aging biology may all gain a major boost from a new fluorescent sensor developed at ...

A breakthrough live-cell sensor makes DNA repair visible as it happens, unlocking new possibilities in biology and medicine.

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For the past decade, Dr. Priscilla Chan and her husband Mark Zuckerberg have focused part of their philanthropy on a lofty ...

Scientists extracted 39,000-year-old RNA from a frozen woolly mammoth, revealing which genes were active when it died.

In a biofilm “community,” bacteria can do things that individual bacterial cells cannot — for example, forming barriers that ...

Arizona State University researcher Xiaojun Tian and colleagues demonstrate a technique to protect synthetic gene circuits against cell growith dilution.

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Scientists have created the world’s first mosquito cell map, revealing how these insects spread diseases like dengue and Zika.

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