One of the most detailed 3D maps of how the human chromosomes are organized and folded within a cell's nucleus is published ...

It's a common storytelling trope: the stubborn foe who is eventually revealed to be a much-needed friend. Biology has its own ...

Deep in coastal mangroves and even inside our own mouths, biologists are finding that DNA does not always sit in a simple ...

Estrogens, the main female sex hormone, although they also perform some functions in men, are involved in a myriad of ...

Research into how a father’s choices — such as diet, exercise, stress, nicotine use — may transfer traits to his children has ...

A new study shows, for the first time, how the human genome folds and moves in 3D over time to control when genes turn on and ...

New 3D genome maps reveal how DNA folding controls gene activity, offering fresh clues into disease and cell function.

It grows quickly and depends on adult worker ants to feed it. These workers decide how much and what kind of food the larva ...

Lee then claimed that she approached several celebrities in the hope that they would adopt her unborn baby at the time, ...

As antibiotic-resistant infections rise and are projected to cause up to 10 million deaths per year by 2050, scientists are looking to bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria, as an alternative.

Life may have emerged from a surprisingly simple network of chemical reactions long before cells or genes existed.

Bacteria use a short RNA guide to detect viruses and activate a self-destruct mechanism that protects the wider microbial ...