One of the greatest mysteries of our planet is how a soup of lifeless chemicals transformed into the first living cell. There are several competing theories about where this happened, from frozen ...

DNA, the blueprint of life, is best known for its fundamental role as genetic material—storing and transmitting biological information through the precise sequence of its bases. For decades, this ...

Scientists have discovered that DNA behaves in a surprising way when squeezed through tiny nanopores, overturning a long-held ...

Deep in your muscles, an enzyme called AMPD1 helps turn chemical fuel into usable energy. When it does not work well, muscles tire faster.

Over the past two decades, researchers have learned that DNA inside the cell nucleus naturally folds into a network of ...

The Edrick Faust murder trial continues Wednesday. Faust is accused in the 2001 cold case killing of UGA law student Tara ...

DNA from 3,700-year-old bones in a mountain cave in Calabria reveals a family relationship so rare it stands out even in deep ...

Life runs on instructions you never see. Every cell reads DNA, turns that message into RNA, and then builds proteins that ...

By blending scientific accuracy with creative design, one builder hopes to make the history of DNA accessible, interactive, ...

Every time a cell divides, it must copy its entire genome so that each daughter cell inherits a complete set of DNA. During that process, enzymes known as polymerases race along the DNA to copy its ...

Coral reefs in tropical and subtropical oceans are complex ecosystems characterized by high biodiversity. Zooxanthellate scleractinians are a major component of these reefs. However, the factors ...