Near the end of his reign, French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte led an army of over half a million men in an invasion of Russia ...

Once an antibody latches on to a pathogen, broadly neutralizing antibodies inactivate it (as their name implies). This is ...

Scientists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have discovered a simple DNA "switch" that helps tropical ...

In 1812, hundreds of thousands of men in Napoleon's army perished during their retreat from Russia. Researchers now believe a ...

Scientists dug into paleofeces for a new study, learning some very intimate details about how long-ago people lived.

Using an enzyme called terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase, the team strung together long chains of DNA in the presence of ...

An international research team led by Hiroki Shibuya at RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR) in Japan has ...

Researchers at a Harvard Medical School laboratory are uncertain how they will continue supporting a large public genetic database after its primary source of funding expired last month.

The cost of sequencing DNA has dropped dramatically, and with technologies like CRISPR, gene editing is becoming more precise and powerful than ever. From curing genetic diseases to designing the next ...

Researchers have combined DNA and inorganic materials to build a DNA-based robot that can act dynamically in response to its ...

Circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) — genetic material shed from tumors into the bloodstream — may help risk-stratify patients with ...