Researchers have used cryo-EM and computational tools to visualize ribozyme assembly, shedding light on life's most versatile ...

Nitrogen is a crucial component of proteins and nucleic acids, the fundamental building blocks of all living things, and thus ...

RNA is a central biological macromolecule, now widely harnessed in medicine and nanotechnology. Like proteins, RNA function ...

South Florida's air may not be as clean as it seems. Invisible yet all around, PFAS—the so-called "forever chemicals"—drift ...

New findings suggest that the body’s own immune cells may play a bigger role in clearing cholesterol than previously ...

When blood cancer in children progresses particularly aggressively, it is often due to a genetic defect: a gene fusion, such ...

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has received a five-year, $10.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop biomarkers for all human diseases ...

The CDC’s recent decision to link autism to vaccines disrespects the extensive science showing that vaccines are not ...

Northwestern Medicine scientists have uncovered a surprising link between a tiny cellular engine and the way cancer cells ...

When you’re next at the movies, if there’s a particularly gnarly scene where a character gets hurt, take a quick glance at ...

With a three-year, $1.6 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Chi Zhang, Edgar Cahoon and Bin Yu will focus on the genome-wide identification of small ...

In the words of Dua Lipa, one kiss is all it took about 21 million years ago. That's roughly when scientists estimate that ...