Inside the Destiny laboratory module aboard the International Space Station, NASA flight engineer Zena Cardman recently ...

The human genome consists of 3 billion base pairs, and when a cell divides, it takes about seven hours to complete making a copy of its DNA. That's almost 120,000 base pairs per second. At that ...

Cyanobacteria—ancient microbes that oxygenated Earth and made complex life possible—are still revealing surprises billions of ...

The MarketWatch News Department was not involved in the creation of this content.-- Precede Bio Insight debuts as a first-of-its-kind product enabling genome-wide inference of gen ...

Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have developed a new imaging method, known as RF-SIRF, that ...

A series of recent physiology studies span from rare disease mechanisms to space-based biomedical advances. Findings include ...

Everyday DNA mutations can help us understand immune function and aging—and even mitigate harm caused by some inherited ...

While the central dogma of molecular biology outlines the linear flow of genetic information from DNA to RNA to proteins (black lines), glycomics introduces a “3rd code of life”—glycans—that operates ...

Reporting in Nature, scientists have identified a novel process that protects the ends of chromosomes from incorrectly applied DNA repair. Although DNA repair is a crucial mechanism that can protect a ...

How does a cell know when it’s been damaged? A molecular alarm, set off by mutated RNA and colliding ribosomes, signals danger. When the sun shines on your skin, what does it hit? When it causes a ...