Scripps Research scientists have created a method using four-nucleotide codons to incorporate non-canonical amino acids into ...

With genetic samples from the infamous Wuhan market, a new study makes the case that raccoon dogs are likely the animal that ...

Endocytosis and recycling control the uptake and retrieval of various materials in eukaryotic cells. Mammalian cells have ...

Proteins are composed of combinations of 20 different amino acids, arranged into diverse sequences like words. But ...

It stands metres high, takes a decade to flower, smells like death and draws huge crowds when it blooms. But scientists are ...

Small World in Motion invites entries captured through a microscope, revealing mind-boggling processes invisible to the naked ...

Biology opens up new frontiers in medicine to cure genetic diseases: Kiran Mazumdar Shaw: Nandita Vijayasimha, Bengaluru ...

A new technique, TF-High-Evolutionary (TF-HighEvo), allows large-scale assessment of de-novo mutations in multicellular organisms. Developed in collaboration with researchers from the European ...

The failure to diagnose Alzheimer's disease—the most common form of dementia in the elderly—at an early stage of molecular ...

New research reveals that there was contact with Indigenous Americans before European arrival. Rapa Nui, also known as Te ...

Medical researchers conducted the largest-ever genome-wide association study of all-cause dementia, finding substantial genetic overlap with vascular dementia.

New drug discovery is extremely inefficient. Estimates of the average R&D cost per new drug are less than $1 billion to more ...