Researchers found that sunburn disables a natural skin defense, allowing inflammation to trigger dangerous changes in cells. Understanding this process could help stop skin cancer before it starts.

Biologists mapping the human microbiome expected to find new bacteria and viruses, not entities that slip through every ...

President Donald J. Trump and his Administration are unleashing a relentless assault to dismantle the massive fraud empires built in Minnesota under the ...

The key idea behind our framework is that life produces molecules with purpose, while nonliving chemistry does not. Cells ...

Researchers in Sweden recovered RNA from a 130-year-old Tasmanian tiger, allowing them to identify which genes were active in its tissues before extinction.

Rapid advances in sequencing technologies have transformed our ability to diagnose human genetic disorders, yet many patients still lack a molecular ...

Sean Ryder, professor at UMass Chan Medical School, has written a book to delve the mysteries of ribonucleic acid as a tool to fight diseases. Messenger ribonucleic acid, or mRNA, is in the public ...

Researchers have discovered how cells activate a last-resort DNA repair system when severe damage strikes. When genetic ...

Ribosomes—the tiny factories that build proteins in our cells—don't all work with the same efficiency. Researchers from Japan ...

Research into how a father’s choices — such as diet, exercise, stress, nicotine use — may transfer traits to his children has ...

Vine Gilligan's sci-fi series Pluribus still has many mysteries left to be solved, and fans have come up with some intriguing theories.

When a gene is expressed, its DNA sequence is transcribed into a molecule known as RNA. Then the cell processes and edits that RNA before it is translated into protein. Many genes can be processed and ...