The Summer Research Showcase featured work that ranged from advancing cancer treatments to improving health care access. More than 120 students from Duke and institutions nationwide shared their ...

Serbia’s BIO4 Campus reflects the convergence biosciences, AI, and IT to power innovation and global collaboration.

Following the vote at the IUCN World Conservation Congress, members have rejected a moratorium on genetic engineering of wild ...

Use cases for smart materials in space exploration keep cropping up everywhere. They are used in everything from antenna ...

Planarian stem cells can be “independent” and turn into any type of cell without needing a nearby niche, a new study indicates.

The influenza A virus (IAV) has been the cause of six major flu pandemics, responsible for 50 to 100 million deaths globally.

The findings may redefine the known boundaries of life on Earth and offer a model for what microbial life might look like on ...

By combining chemical and genetic properties of wood, the origin of tropical hardwood can be determined much more accurately.

UD researchers study how protein coatings influence nanoparticles' ability to avoid immune clearance and reach their ...

In the present work we focus on the key function of N condensing viral RNA into ribonucleoprotein particles (RNPs) for viral assembly. Lacking high-resolution structural information, biochemical and ...

“Our work is the first to directly test how chromosome structure affects bacterial growth, survival, and ability to cause ...

Researchers have understood for decades that some forms of deafness are inherited, yet until now, few of those genetic clues ...