Many of us remember from high school biology class that mitochondria are the cell's "power plants." These small ...

A giant musk turtle is one of the two species of turtles studied by a research team led by Nicole Valenzuela, professor of ecology, evolution and organismal biology at Iowa State University, in a ...

Analysis of ancient DNA from the ashen casts of Pompeii victims changes presumed relationships between them, and reveals the ...

Fearful memories are known to recruit neurons in a specific region of the brain called the amygdala. When we experience something frightening, the amygdala signals to other brain regions involved in ...

DNA catapults into spotlight. A trio of research papers from Stanford Medicine researchers and their international ...

Instead of sending tourists to space, scientists have found a more practical use for the final frontier: growing better ...

A team of microbiologists and virologists at Wuhan University, working with colleagues from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, ...

A chemical in common-use plastics may cause DNA damage and infertility in women, a new Harvard Medical School study shows.

Scientists have discovered a way to target elusive circular fragments of DNA that drive the survival of some of the most aggressive cancers, paving the way for future treatments.

But they found that, unlike chromosomes, ecDNA transcription — the process of copying DNA sequences into RNA instructions ... internal checkpoints to pause cell division until the conflict is resolved ...

Scientists have long wondered how the first cell membranes formed from the primordial soup—a new study offers up a recipe.

The bombardment affected 2,801 tardigrade genes associated with DNA repair, cell division, hormone metabolism and immune ...