A new study suggests an enzyme unique to Homo sapiens may have made us more competitive water seekers than our closest ...

DNA’s chemical cousin, RNA, was the messenger that carries DNA instructions from the double helix in the cell’s nucleus to ...

Thousands of previously “invisible” microproteins—tiny chains of fewer than 100 amino acids—can profoundly change human ...

Over the last few years, scientists and entrepreneurs have flocked to developing medicines that target RNA, the genetic ...

A University of Massachusetts Amherst researcher has received a five-year, $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.

As aging progresses, the quality of DNA and proteins inside cells declines, known to be the cause of various degenerative ...

The quest for a vaccine against HIV has been going on for about 40 years — almost as long as the virus that causes AIDS has ...

Indian American researcher to study how cells “silence” transposons, genetic elements that can disrupt the function of genes ...

Much the way the caps on the ends of a shoelace prevent it from fraying, telomeres - regions of repetitive DNA sequences and a protein structure - protect the tips of chromosomes from damage.

In the past decade, there has been significant interest in studying the expression of our genetic code down to the level of ...