The ocean, covering more than 70% of the Earth’s surface, is home to an astonishing diversity of life, much of which remains ...

An INRS research team has identified a new family of enzymes that can make precise cuts in single-stranded DNA. A few years ...

Most cells in the human body each contain about six feet of DNA. Yet the nucleus, where DNA is coiled, is no larger than a ...

Scientists at the University of California, Riverside, have discovered how adult stem cells retain their regenerative power.

Mycobacteria are the world's most deadly bacteria --c ausing infectious diseases including tuberculosis (TB), which alone kills more than one million people each year. New drugs to fight these ...

Is Rosalind Franklin a ghost that still haunts the history of genomic science? Alan Booth looks into her remarkable story ...

Proteins are fundamental biomolecules that perform a broad range of vital functions within the human body. They serve as an essential structural and functional component of cells, tissues and organs ...

Pancreatic cancer is one of the most aggressive cancers and has one of the lowest survival rates—only 10% after five years.

Because RNAs are so central to our biology, they are also drivers of a wide array of diseases. Defects in how RNA is produced ...