Cholera remains a major global public health challenge, with an estimated 1.3 to 4 million cases and tens of thousands of ...

Ushikuvirus is a newly identified giant virus that infects amoebas, adding to a growing group of oversized viruses that scientists believe may have played an important role in the emergence of complex ...

The attorney for a Macon man suspected for a murder that happened over two decades ago argued last week that the case should ...

DNA reveals that in prehistoric China, men remained in their community, while women joined new family lineages.

The longest living vertebrate on Earth may have a thing or two to teach us about maintaining our eyesight into old age. New ...

In its effort to correlate genomic structure with gene function, the 4D Nucleome Consortium (4DN), led by Job Dekker, Ph.D., ...

Link found between super-agers, or people with exceptional longevity, to inherited DNA from Ice Age hunter-gatherer ...

Crops increasingly need to thrive in a broader range of conditions, including drought, salinity, and heat. Traditional plant ...

DNA doesn’t just sit still inside our cells — it folds, loops, and rearranges in ways that shape how genes behave.

Learn how a newly discovered virus disrupts its host’s nucleus in ways that echo how complex cells may have formed billions ...

Physicist, molecular biologist, neuroscientist: Francis Crick’s scientific career took many turns. And now, he is the subject ...

Biology has always been an unruly science. Cells divide when they want to. Genes switch on and off like temperamental lights.