Proteins are the infinitely varied chemicals that make cells work, and science has a pretty good idea how they are made. But ...

A new study reveals that blocking ribosomal RNA production rewires cancer cell behavior and could help treat genetically ...

A team of researchers is tapping into the ocean’s vast body of free-floating environmental DNA to catch blooms before they ...

Proteins are the infinitely varied chemicals that make cells work, and science has a pretty good idea how they are made. But a critical aspect ...

Researchers have recovered and sequenced Mycobacterium lepromatosis genomes from 4,000-year-old human remains in Chile, ...

Michelle Marder, a University of Rhode Island Ph.D. student originally from Lynnfield, is one of two students, with Kate Remy, to be awarded with a graduate fellowship from the NASA Rhode Island Space ...

DNA recombination is the exchange of DNA strands to produce new nucleotide sequence arrangements. Recombination occurs typically, though not exclusively, between regions of similar sequence by ...

DNA replication is the biological process by which an exact copy of a deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) molecule is created and it is the basis for biological inheritance. Each of the two strands of the ...

Read latest scientific findings on ancient DNA, including research on DNA preserved from early life forms and early humans.