In a new study, scientists analyzed one such strategy used by the bacterium Escherichia coli. One of the enzymes in the ...

Scientists are uncovering a deeper layer of DNA biology—where its shape, stiffness, and 3D organization are just as important as its sequence. New tools are mapping how replication starts, how damage ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising new picture of human origins that challenges the long-held idea of a single ancestral ...

A cancer drug target already being investigated in clinical trials turns out to be doing something even more consequential than researchers realized. Scientists at Scripps Research have discovered ...

DNA robots are emerging as tiny programmable machines that could one day deliver drugs, hunt viruses, and build molecular-scale devices. By borrowing ideas from traditional robotics and combining them ...

The ability to precisely edit the genomes of bacteria has long been a goal of microbiologists. Such technology would enable ...

Working on human pus in a medieval castle, Miescher discovered a substance that would eventually unlock our understanding of ...

A diagram of the DRT3 system, showing Drt3a in yellow and Drt3b in blue. (Hyunbin Lee) Scientists have just discovered an ...

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Conservation levels of gene expression abundance ratios are globally coordinated in cells, and cellular state changes under such biologically relevant stoichiometric constraints are readable as ...