This important study uses innovative microfluidics-based single-cell imaging to monitor replicative lifespan, protein localization, and intracellular iron levels in aging yeast cells. The evidence for ...

Naked mole-rats are one of nature's most extraordinary creatures. These burrowing rodents can live for up to 37 years, around ...

Molecular biologists have long believed that the beginning of a gene launched the process of transcription—the process by ...

You can always be judged by your scars. This is the idea that sums up one of the new advances in basic and biomedical ...

Companies that make DNA for science labs screen out any requests for dangerous bits of genetic material. But a new study ...

US scientists testing the technique say it could help people overcome infertility and potentially allow same-sex couples to ...

Scientists are exploring how RNA might have jump-started life four billion years ago and how it's now advancing drug ...

A revamped CDC advisory committee faces vaccine debates, studies reveal brain changes in athletes, and climate change drives deadly heat waves across Europe. First, let’s check in on vaccines. On ...

The genomic DNA of most bacteria is significantly underwound, which constrains the DNA molecule to adopt a branched plectoneme geometry. Moreover, biological functions like replication and ...

Peer ReviewDownload a summary of the editorial decision process including editorial decision letters, reviewer comments and author responses to feedback. The flexibility of the spatio-temporal genome ...

An artificial intelligence-predicted image of a region in the SPRTN enzyme (green structure) that can recognise and bind to ubiquitin chains (orange structure). Researchers at the University of Oxford ...

Researchers at the University of Oxford and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have uncovered the mechanism by which cells identify and repair a highly toxic form of DNA ...