Before a cell divides, its DNA is replicated so that each daughter cell inherits the same genetic information. The two copies ...

The recent commentary by Manning et al highlights difficulties comparing results of gastrointestinal microbiome cohort studies.1 They demonstrate how methodological heterogeneity can substantially ...

A modular metamaterial mimics DNA geometry to combine twist compression, tunable stiffness, fast recovery, and reusable shock ...

In many ways, this is how ecosystems scale. NVIDIA’s CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture), for example, succeeded not ...

More than four billion years ago, Earth was a very different place. Pools of water froze and thawed in cycles, minerals ...

Directed evolution is usually a laborious process that often takes weeks in which proteins rapidly evolve and develop ...

A study from Würzburg reveals that pox viruses have developed a unique strategy to rapidly multiply after infecting a host ...

Dementia has become one of the world’s most pressing health challenges. Millions of people live with the condition, and the ...

Epigenetics, a relatively underappreciated field by those unfamiliar with its significance, holds profound implications for our overall health and well-being. Simply put, epigenetics explores how ...

Lucy Shapiro received this year’s Lasker Special Achievement Award for her discovery of how bacteria use genetic circuits to ...

The spontaneous coalescence of the molecules that led to life on primordial Earth, some 4 billion years ago, may have finally ...