Scientists have detected erythrulose, a sugar found on Earth, in the interstellar medium, marking the first direct discovery of sugar in space. This finding, published in Nature Astronomy, suggests ...

Genetics and evolution explain why extending life has a biological cost: the same mechanisms that could make us longer-lived ...

Ultimate success,” says the synthetic biologist, would be that “all the atoms we’re moving in our economy are moved with ...

University of Virginia postdoctoral researcher Róża Przanowska investigates how long non-coding RNA structural domains drive ...

Trethera Corporation (“Trethera”), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing first-in-class therapies for cancer ...

A new study utilizes UK Biobank data to demonstrate that subjective loneliness exerts a direct causal impact on mental health ...

Mitochondrial DNA damage accumulates in dopamine-producing neurons, offering new insights to why they are vulnerable in ...

When antibiotics attack microbes, their stressed neighbors ship them proteins to help them survive, new work suggests. Bacteria share DNA related to antibiotic resistance through a process called ...

An international research team has recovered ancient human mitochondrial and nuclear DNA directly from cave wall materials in ...

Your DNA is constantly changing. And if it weren’t for genetic mutations, evolution wouldn’t exist. So, what would life be ...

Five Cambridge scientists have been elected as members of the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO).