Creating synthetic DNA is essential for developing vaccines, advancing gene therapy, and building out biotechnologies like ...

Researchers at the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences, in partnership with other institutions, have pinpointed the exact ...

The researchers, led by chemistry professor Zan Luthey-Schulten at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, present their findings in the journal Cell. In two videos, researchers describe the work ...

A simulated cell in the early stages of division. Left half shows cytoplasm (blue cubes), mRNA degradation machinery molecules (pink), and sugar transporters (brown). Right half adds the membrane ...

The team simulated a living cell at nanoscale resolution and recapitulated how every molecule within that cell behaved over the course of a full cell cycle. The work took many years: vast computer ...

Previously discovered large RNA polymerase ribozyme structure (grey, based on pdb: 8T2P) vs. newly discovered small RNA polymerase ribozyme QT45 (blue, AlphaFold3 prediction). Credit: MRC Laboratory ...

The DNA packed inside every human cell contains instructions for life, written in billions of letters of genetic code. Every time a cell divides, the complete code, divided among 46 chromosomes, must ...

Cells aren’t just the basis of life; they’re the basis of biology learning. This Digital Teaching Box includes resources for teaching introductory cell biology, from the definition and function of the ...

The mechanisms that govern biological evolution and human cognition are analogous, as both follow the same principles of natural information processing systems. In this article, we describe the ...

Human laughter as we know it likely developed between ten and 16 million years ago. For context, the stone tools our distant human ancestors made in the Early Stone Age date back around 2.6 million ...