Alternative splicing exhibits lineage-specific variability, with mammals and birds reaching the highest levels despite conserved intron-rich architectures, while unicellular eukaryotes and prokaryotes ...

New work shows that physical folding of the genome to control genes located far away may have been an early evolutionary ...

CRISPR-based tools can’t easily access the DNA in these organelles, but researchers are finding other ways in.

2016: Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir J. Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L. Feringa were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry ...

As CRISPR continues to drive breakthroughs in medicine, agriculture, and synthetic biology, understanding its origins does more than tell an ancient story. It provides a blueprint for engineering the ...

From bispecific engineering to clinically relevant data sourcing, evolving antibody technologies advance oncology therapeutics.

Scientists have used AI to design bacteriophages, or viruses that infect only bacteria. Does the prospect of designing viruses with AI pose threats to biosecurity?

Naked mole-rats are one of nature's most extraordinary creatures. These burrowing rodents can live for up to 37 years, around ...

In joint studies, scientists at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) and University of Tübingen, as well as Gießen University, Freiburg University, Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen, US ...

Visualizing and quantifying DNA replication dynamics in living human cells remains challenging. Here, a new super-resolution ...

Activating lysosome biogenesis helps alleviate cellular senescence in progeria. Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome (HGPS) ...