For decades, scientists have largely relied on painstaking trial and error to coax proteins into crystalline forms.

A newly mapped step in DNA replication suggests that strand separation begins at a precise junction between two helicase ...

The chemical synthesis of oligonucleotides (ONs) is central to modern molecular biology, diagnostics and nucleic acid ...

For decades, scientists have largely relied on painstaking trial and error to coax proteins into crystalline forms. Crystallization enables scientists ...

For decades, scientists have largely relied on painstaking trial and error to coax proteins into crystalline forms.

A new DNA-based nanotherapy targets bacteria, inflammation, and bone loss together, showing promising results against periodontitis in laboratory and animal studies.

Why DNA Damage Does Not Affect Everyone Equally Cancer begins when DNA errors, known as mutations, accumulate inside cells. These changes can cause cells to multiply too quickly and ignore signals ...

Scientists have found the first direct evidence of the powerful role our genetic makeup plays in influencing our risk of ...

Deep inside a remote cave, explorers come across a strange mineral formation unlike anything else around it. Its unusual ...

Millions of people worldwide live with periodontitis, a chronic gum disease that can progressively destroy the tissues and bone supporting the teeth despite conventional treatment.

Although genome editing was not a new concept, as zinc finger and TALEN platforms were already in use, the discovery of CRISPR-Cas9 shifted genome-editing research and clinical translation into high ...

For years, NASA’s Curiosity rover has been climbing Mount Sharp, the enormous mountain rising from the center of Mars’ Gale ...