Earth’s most diverse biological entities are the viruses that infect bacteria, called bacteriophages (phages). They are rich ...

Plenty, because we aren’t so different from wheat and yeast The periodic table sorts 118 elements into rows and columns. Two dozen of these are manmade, the rest are building blocks of everything ...

Avak Kahvejian, PhD, a general partner with biotech incubator Flagship Pioneering, discusses how AI is rearchitecting methods ...

Dr. Joseph Graves is on a mission. He’s had a long, successful career as a professor of biology and researcher at North Carolina A&T State University, but he is working harder than ever. He’s not just ...

Organelles spit out DNA contaminated with damaging components, leading to the activation of inflammatory enzymes, mouse ...

Chimpanzees, along with bonobos, are humans' closest living relatives. In fact, you may have heard that humans and chimps ...

The sides of the ladder are sugars and phosphates. The ladder's rungs are paired combinations of four molecules called nucleotides: adenine, cytosine, guanine and thymine (A, C, G and T). These are ...

Bacteria are constantly moving with the help of motility organs called flagella or pili to colonize new niches. Also, ...

These chains come in a wide range of lengths. In humans a typical protein is about 400 amino acids long; some are a lot longer. Molecules of RNA, one of the two nucleic acids, can reach up to 100,000 ...

As the global functional food and beverage market nears $400bn, consumer demand is booming - but taste remains the top ...

So a few words about BioNTech. We are a clinical -- late-stage clinical company with multiple programs in oncology, which is our core focus, but we have also both pipeline in infectious diseases, ...

Researchers have discovered a new family of signaling proteins, widespread in bacterial kingdom and contributes to regulating ...