Biologists mapping the human body have long assumed that every major kind of microscopic life inside us already had a place ...

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

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Life may have emerged from a surprisingly simple network of chemical reactions long before cells or genes existed.

Scientists build a synthetic metabolism that converts CO2-derived formate into valuable chemicals outside living cells.

Four billion years ago, Earth was violent, hot, and unstable. Yet new research suggests that by then, life had already ...

AlphaFold didn't accelerate biology by running faster experiments. It changed the engineering assumptions behind protein ...

Alcohol consumption leads to the formation of a toxic compound called acetaldehyde, which damages DNA. A research team from ...

NUDT5 enzyme acts as a molecular scaffold that maintains metabolic balance. Inside every cell, a finely tuned metabolic network determines when to build, recycle or stop producing essential molecules.

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Samantha Bianzon explained what biology-guided radiation therapy for cancer is, as well as highlighted how it may differ from the more traditional types of radiation. Biology-guided radiation therapy ...