This image depicts the chemical structure of cytosine. It shows a hexagonal ring with nitrogen atoms at positions 1 and 3, and a primary amine group attached to carbon 4. The two remaining positions ...

The research, published in the journal Cell, opens a new window on past life. DNA is famously known as the genetic blueprint of living things, but RNA determines how those genes turn on in different ...

RNAs play an integral part in all kingdoms of life and mediate critical processes from gene regulation to genomic maintenance and protein synthesis. RNAs also have an amazing diversity in structure ...

James Watson, who co-discovered the structure of DNA has died at age 97. He was a scientific superstar until he made racist ...

Researchers have designed a smart drug that hunts down and breaks a little-known RNA that cancer cells depend on. The drug ...

Researchers used cryo-EM to study how the HIV enzyme integrase arranges in 3D to slip its DNA into the host genome and pack its genetic material into new viral particles.

There has been incredible progress in the discovery and application of molecular biomarkers for multiple pathologies, including cancer and neurodegenerative diseases. Because biomarkers for precision ...

Scientists have managed to rescue the molecule, against all odds, from a calf that died after being attacked by cave lions ...