Every living cell must interpret its genetic code—a sequence of chemical letters that governs countless cellular functions. A ...

Every living cell must interpret its genetic code — a sequence of chemical letters that governs countless cellular functions.

A breakthrough assay is advancing how researchers observe gene expression in real time. Named QRIVTA (quantitative real-time ...

Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have reconciled two closely related but contentious mechanisms underlying transcription, the ...

The being in question is a microbe called Sukunaarchaeum mirabile. Preliminary research says it stretches the definition of ...

The study, authored by Tripti Midha, Anatoly Kolomeisky and Oleg Igoshin and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

A single β-lactam exposure rapidly drives stable multidrug resistance in RecA-deficient bacteria through an SOS-independent mechanism involving oxidative stress-induced mutagenesis and ...

Scientists have discovered that starving and then refeeding worms can reveal surprising secrets about aging. When a specific ...

In the vast and often unseen world of microscopic life, a recent discovery may force scientists to rethink what it means to ...

It has genes for ribosomes, tRNAs, and mRNAs. These components are the scaffolding of life: the tools by which cells read ...