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

New research finds that turtle genomes show a chromatin arrangement that hasn't been observed in other organisms.

During cell division, DNA is tightly coiled around proteins ... and more recently, turtles. In a recent paper published in ...

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 ...

The tiny device uses a tightly focused beam of light to capture and manipulate cells. MIT researchers have developed a miniature, chip-based “tractor beam,” like the one that captures the Millennium ...

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

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.

Geneticists looking inside the nuclear genome for mutations that contribute to disease have long relied on a principal known ...

Findings of study by Chinese scientists could help extend women's reproductive lifespan as the average age of having children rises Chinese scientists have used stem cell transplantation to ...

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

"We think the ways tardigrades have evolved to withstand extreme environments on this planet may also be what protects them ...