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

This study offers important insight into the pathogenic basis of intragenic frameshift deletions in the carboxy-terminal domain of MECP2, which account for some Rett syndrome cases, yet similar ...

This microbe can survive doses of radiation that would obliterate any other living thing. Here’s what this means for science ...

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

Whether it was a sentencing in the Baby Moses case, an arrest in the 20-year-old murder of Gretchen Perham, or a discovery in ...

In the last decade, archaeologists have learned to read the genetic traces that ancient humans and Neanderthals left not only ...

A single microscopic change in our DNA can permanently alter how the brain is built, locking in developmental problems that ...

A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia may finally have been cracked.

Researchers have discovered how cells activate a last-resort DNA repair system when severe damage strikes. When genetic ...

DNA extracted from mosquito blood meals revealed traces of 86 vertebrate species, helping scientists track entire ecosystems.

It's a common storytelling trope: the stubborn foe who is eventually revealed to be a much-needed friend. Biology has its own ...

Rare case shows a man living virus free for years after stopping treatment, raising new questions about how the immune system ...