DNA doesn’t just sit still inside our cells — it folds, loops, and rearranges in ways that shape how genes behave.

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Physicist, molecular biologist, neuroscientist: Francis Crick’s scientific career took many turns. And now, he is the subject ...

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Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have revealed previously unappreciated roles for the retrotransposon LINE ...

Franklin’s experience was far from unusual. Scientific discovery is shaped by patriarchy and colonialism as the story of ...

She was trying to prove the structure of the B form of DNA through mathematical computations and more than 100 hours of ...

Inspired by biological systems, materials scientists have long sought to harness self-assembly to build nanomaterials. The ...

Researchers at Utah State University revealed new details about CRISPR immune system defenses, such as Cas12a3 systems, that ...

He built the Great Mosque at Timbuktu, and Timbuktu became a very important commercial city, having caravan connections with Egypt and other important trader centers in North Africa. All of this made ...

Seeing plastic trash while hiking inspired a Rutgers chemist to rethink why synthetic plastics last forever while natural ...

The Greenland shark is thought to live for about 400 years but somehow its eyes appear to barely deteriorate, according to a ...