In April of 2025, headlines across the world announced that the dire wolf had been brought back from extinction. This 130-150 ...

When a virus infects a bacterial cell, the viral genome is the first component to be fully injected into the cell, making it an ideal immune target. A bacterial enzyme anchored to the membrane ...

Maize serves as a vital model species for advancing our understanding of plant biology, yet many mysteries remain about the ...

Proteins, one of the smallest building blocks of life on Earth, hold promise for answering some of biology's biggest ...

Scientists have uncovered an enormous hidden archive of plant DNA that has endured for more than 400 million years. By ...

Interbreeding between Homo sapiens, Neanderthals, and Denisovans is presented as a network rather than a simple branching tree. Fossils and genetic evidence are used to show repeated hybridization ...

RNA vaccines saved millions of lives during COVID-19 but have limitations like waning immunity and complex production.

A sample collected by the Hayabusa 2 spacecraft from the spinning top-like asteroid contained the nucleobases adenine, ...

INSTALL results showed successful and safe non-viral insertion of large genetic payloads in the livers of mice when delivered by lipid nanoparticles (LNPs). In contrast, mice experienced fatal immune ...

All five of the canonical nucleobases – the underpinnings of DNA, RNA and life on Earth – have been found in samples from the ...

Researchers uncovered millions of ancient plant DNA switches—some older than flowering plants themselves—revealing a hidden evolutionary blueprint stretching back 400 million years. Most people have ...

Our limited understanding of the metabolism of our microbial ancestor is a sizeable gap in our knowledge of how complex life ...