Discover the importance of nucleic acids for your health. Learn what foods are good sources of nucleic acids and how to ...

The first sprayable insecticide made of RNA can target and kill ravenous Colorado potato beetles while sparing most ...

Ribosomes are the cell's protein factories, which read the genetic code and assemble the proteins that every organism needs to live. But as far as how ribosomes themselves were formed, tantalizingly ...

Experiments on yeast show that the nuclear pore complex has a central role in the loss of chromosomes associated with aging.

Epitranscriptomics, the study of dynamic co- or post-transcriptional modifications on RNA, has emerged as a vibrant field in ...

The 55th Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award for Distinguished Work in Basic Medical Research has been awarded to professor Steven ...

A research team has uncovered how peanuts develop their remarkable underground pods by constructing the first single-cell ...

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) accounts for 60–80% of all dementia cases, with women at higher risk due to both longevity and biological factors. Familial AD, ...

As we enter entrepreneurship month this November, we’re celebrating the professors and alumni who are fueling job creation ...

Cells contain a blueprint in the form of DNA that dictates what they can make. This blueprint is converted into a message ...

ETH Zurich scientists have created “MetaGraph,” a revolutionary DNA search engine that functions like Google for genetic data. By compressing global genomic datasets by a factor of 300, it allows ...