This story is part of a larger series on viroids and virusoids, small infectious RNAs. It is also the fourth installment in a series on hepatitis D virus, a virusoid-like pathogen that causes serious ...

A 'loopy' discovery in bacteria is raising fundamental questions about the makeup of our own genome -- and revealing a potential wellspring of material for new genetic therapies. A "loopy" discovery ...

From the completion of the pilot phase of The ENCODE Project in 2007, it has been evident that there is much more to a gene than the just a sequence that codes for protein, changing our concept of ...

Researchers discovered how the Lsr2 protein silences foreign DNA in tuberculosis bacteria. By forming protein condensates on ...

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), with collaborators from the Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc), ...

Harvard scientists successfully recorded five frames of Eadweard Muybridge's 1887 galloping horse on living bacteria, and retrieved the images in sequence. When harnessed, this system has the ...

DNA-encoded chemical libraries (DELs) have emerged as a transformative technology in drug discovery, offering unparalleled efficiency in the identification of bioactive small molecules. By covalently ...

It has been claimed that because most of our DNA is active, it must be important, but now human-plant hybrid cells have been ...

In three back-to-back papers and five pages of the April 25, 1953, issue of Nature, seven authors laid out the evidence and interpretation that established the double helical structure of DNA. As ever ...