A strand of RNA just 45 nucleotides long has been discovered to perform two key reactions required for self-replication. The molecule, which is a kind of RNA enzyme, offers a tantalising clue towards ...

In May 1952, Rosalind Franklin and Raymond Gosling captured Photo 51, a crucial X-ray diffraction image revealing DNA's ...

Haoyu Cheng, Ph.D., assistant professor of biomedical informatics and data science at Yale School of Medicine, has developed a new algorithm capable of building complete human genomes using standard ...

Solar energy is a possible alternative, but while we have become reasonably good at storing solar electricity in lithium-ion ...

Researchers have uncovered the enzyme behind chromothripsis, a chaotic chromosome-shattering event seen in about one in four ...