Proteins, one of the smallest building blocks of life on Earth, hold promise for answering some of biology's biggest ...

Throughout history, humans have often believed they fully understood the world around them. You could travel back 500 years, ...

The droppings contain DNA, he thought, and perhaps, even after rain washes them away, some DNA might remain. And if it does ...

Remember when Japan sent a spacecraft to an asteroid 180 million miles away to scoop some dirt off the surface? Six years on ...

From Bronze Age seeds to modern bottles, researchers uncovered how cloning helped preserve iconic wine varieties.

An Australian tech entrepreneur has helped create what appears to be a made-to-measure cancer vaccine for his dog, Rosie, ...

Researchers working with dried fungal specimens stored at Australia’s National Herbarium of Victoria have identified two new ...

Scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute and an international team of collaborators have defined a ...

Mass spectrometry is already a powerful tool for determining what kind and how many molecules are present in a given sample.

When a virus infects a bacterial cell, the viral genome is the first component to be fully injected into the cell, making it an ideal immune target. A bacterial enzyme anchored to the membrane ...

Researchers built an open tool to handle complex genome sequencing data, offering automated quality control, improved variant ...