Scientists have discovered hundreds of genes that could potentially promote cancer, new research shows. Cancer is typically ...

Thanks to a serendipitous discovery and a lot of painstaking work, scientists can now build biohybrid molecules that combine ...

Review highlights the growing evidence that aging is linked to reduced expression of long genes, offering insights into ...

In multicellular organisms, transcriptional regulation allows for specialization, such that cells carrying the same genetic ...

Our world today is populated by multicellular organisms, from big trees to climate-wrecking humans. This multicellularity ...

RNA modulates transcription factor binding to DNA, though the subsequent effect on transcription remains unclear. The study ...

One of the most fascinating discoveries in biology is that cells have mechanisms for dynamically regulating genetic ...

Scientists have discovered a method to create biohybrid molecules combining DNA and proteins using bacterial enzymes. This ...

Metformin is the main first-line drug used to treat type 2 diabetes, but a new study on monkeys suggests it could one day be ...

Zhijian “James” Chen received this year’s Albert Lasker Award for discovering cGAS, an enzyme which scopes out DNA-based ...