Many times, scientists embark on a study looking for evidence for a particular hypothesis, and in the process, they come across something totally unexpected and different from their original purpose.

A new method for recognizing and targeting DNA that dramatically expands the range of genetic sequences scientists can identify has been developed by experts at the University of Portsmouth. Published ...

For more than three decades, researchers studying genomes have relied on foundational resources such as Repbase and, more ...

A prototype cell partly capable of replicating itself has been created using 36 existing bacterial genes, but it's not really ...

Scientists from the Institute of Integrated Cellular and Material Sciences at Kyoto University, together with colleagues, ...

Over the past decade, researchers at WashU Medicine have established that a molecule called SARM1 is a central trigger in the loss of axons, the vital wiring of the nervous system. Axon loss is ...

Could a viral infection you experience today cause mental health disorders for generations of your descendants? Absolutely.

NASA’s Curiosity rover has identified a nitrogen heterocycle in a 3.5-billion-year-old Martian rock, a type of molecule that ...

The discovery of all five nucleobases on Ryugu strengthens the idea that life’s molecular ingredients formed in space before ...

Scientists Say Asteroid Contains All 5 DNA Letters Raising Big Questions About Life ...