Innovative research into the gene-editing tool targets influenza’s ability to replicate—stopping it in its tracks.

Harvard Medical School researchers have uncovered crucial insights into how an emerging class of antiviral drugs works.

For decades, biology textbooks taught that DNA’s story could be told with a single image: two elegant strands twisting in a ...

Chemists design biodegradable plastics inspired by nature, programming polymers to stay durable in use and break down safely ...

The arrest and prosecution of Chinese researcher Youhuang Xiang, announced December 19 by FBI Director Kash Patel, is the ...

Life’s most indispensable molecules are not the serene, unchanging fixtures they might appear to be. Even the proteins that ...

That’s why researchers at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem set out to find new ways to attack these bacteria and came up ...

A new RapidHIT ID machine, which bears a passing resemblance to an air fryer, can generate a human DNA profile in about 90 ...

A new CRISPR breakthrough shows scientists can turn genes back on without cutting DNA, by removing chemical tags that act ...

What scientists long believed were knots in DNA may actually be persistent twists formed during nanopore analysis, revealing ...

Now, as we embark on the second quarter of the 21st century, what could Rhode Island look like in 2050? The staff at The ...

With a storage capacity of 36 petabytes, a DNA-based cassette tape can hold every song every recorded, and it could be on the ...