Biologists mapping the human microbiome expected to find new bacteria and viruses, not entities that slip through every ...

After centuries of mapping the human body in ever-finer detail, scientists are still making discoveries. Here we are, in 2025, and a previously unknown cellular structure that could be vital to our ...

Researchers identify a shared RNA-protein interaction that could lead to broad-spectrum antiviral treatments for ...

The world of biology and science never ceases to amaze us. This has been demonstrated by what a group of scientists has ...

Research reveals that five DNA letters can switch chromatin between fluid and solid-like states, influencing gene ...

Inside human cells, biology has pulled off the ultimate packing job, figuring out how to fit six feet of DNA into a nucleus about one-tenth as wide as a human hair while making sure the all-important ...

YAHOO.COM - Sixty years after scientists described the chemical code of life — an interweaving double helix called DNA — researchers have found four-stranded DNA is also lurking in human cells. The ...

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 ...

We have been taught to think of cholesterol as something that clogs arteries, spikes lab reports and comes with dietary guilt ...

The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is a crucial organelle present in eukaryotic cells, including human cells. The ER plays a vital part in making sure proteins are properly constructed, and that they get ...

Most mutations that cause disease by swapping one amino acid out for another do so by making the protein less stable, according to a major study of human protein variants that was published in Nature ...