Chemists design biodegradable plastics inspired by nature, programming polymers to stay durable in use and break down safely ...

For decades, biology textbooks taught that DNA’s story could be told with a single image: two elegant strands twisting in a ...

Life’s most indispensable molecules are not the serene, unchanging fixtures they might appear to be. Even the proteins that ...

With a storage capacity of 36 petabytes, a DNA-based cassette tape can hold every song every recorded, and it could be on the ...

A new CRISPR breakthrough shows scientists can turn genes back on without cutting DNA, by removing chemical tags that act ...

What scientists long believed were knots in DNA may actually be persistent twists formed during nanopore analysis, revealing ...

The new findings strengthen the "RNA world" hypothesis that describes how the first life on Earth could have used RNA instead ...

Extra chromosomes, found in some fish, contain copied genes that don’t work but can still impact the organism. Research shows ...