Space is a toxic cocktail of radiation and weightlessness that is hostile to terrestrial biology. As missions stretch from ...

Since Jeffrey Epstein’s death in 2019, wave after wave of evidence has put him at the centre of a wide-ranging network of sex ...

An infection with Epstein-Barr virus is a nonevent for most people. But for a subset, the virus can contribute to chronic ...

Scientists know that genetic factors can explain many of autism’s features - but have autism researchers been looking for ...

DNA nanostructures store and encrypt data using physical shape, enabling fast electronic readout and secure molecular ...

Researchers reprogrammed bacterial bridge recombinases to edit large genomic regions in mammalian cells, revealing a ...

A dramatic increase in fat content is causing pains in the dairy industry.

Ancient duplicated genes are giving scientists their first real clues about what life was like before all life on Earth shared a common ancestor.

Over the past two decades, researchers have learned that DNA inside the cell nucleus naturally folds into a network of ...

In 1869, Swiss scientist Friedrich Miescher isolated a mysterious substance from cell nuclei—an overlooked finding that would ...

Epigenetic modifications such as DNA methylation play a key role in regulating gene expression. Emerging evidence suggests ...