In a quiet lab at Utrecht University, researchers have built a tool that lets you watch one of life’s most serious crises ...

Researchers discovered that stiff DNA segments inside nucleosomes physically block chromatin remodeling. The remodeling ...

The mechanism of HIV-1 genome uncoating is currently not well understood. This work shows that capsid-targeting drugs lay ...

DNA scaffolds that mirror influenza virus protein geometry boost antiviral binding and reduce infection more effectively than free molecules, enabling a modular antiviral design strategy.

"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative," wrote H. G. Wells. This principle—that survival requires ...

Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have shown that DNA inflexibility, or rigidity, inside the ...

Researchers found that using mental models—visual, verbal, or animated—helps people understand mRNA vaccination science, ...

The beauty of the DNA code is that organisms interpret it unambiguously. Each three-letter nucleotide sequence, or codon, in ...

Dogs were the first of any species that people domesticated, and they have been a constant part of human life for millennia.

For decades, biologists treated DNA as a static string of letters, a linear code that cells read like text on a page. A new ...

In five years since AlphaFold's debut, it has transformed basic biochemical research. But its long-term effect on drug ...