A newly discovered promoter element "start" points to a shared regulatory syntax for controlling transcription initiation in ...

Rocky planets like our Earth may be far more common than previously thought, according to new research published in the ...

Membraneless organelles, also called biomolecular condensates, are changing how scientists think about protein chemistry, various diseases and even the origin of life.

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Celebrities can turn almost anything into a must-try beauty treatment—even facials with shock-value nicknames like “salmon ...

Salmon sperm facials have been billed as the next frontier in skin rejuvenation. Here’s what you need to know.

To our immune system, a potentially lifesaving gene therapy can look a lot like a dangerous infection. That's because most ...

High-resolution structures explain the mechanism of human PNPase and provide insights into mutations causing hereditary ...

This study provides useful insights into addressing the question of whether the prevalence of autoimmune disease could be driven by sex differences in the T cell receptor (TCR) repertoire, correlating ...

This article explores how challenges such as sequence optimization, immune activation and off-target effects are being ...

Despite awe-inspiring diversity, nearly every lifeform—from bacteria to blue whales—shares the same genetic code. How and when this code came about has been the subject of much scientific controversy.

More than two years after the Covid-19 pandemic destroyed the lives of more than seven million people world-wide, I find it sickening that some are now attempting to misdirect blame for this carnage ...