Over the past two decades, researchers have learned that DNA inside the cell nucleus naturally folds into a network of ...

Overcoming tumor resistance to chemotherapy drugs has long been a challenge for oncology clinicians and researchers. Now, a ...

Calico Life Sciences LLC (Calico), a clinical-stage biotechnology organization focused on aging and age-related diseases and founded by Alphabet Inc. and Arthur D. Levinson, Ph.D., today announced the ...

Using CRISPR, Hebrew University of Jerusalem team finds PEDS1 enzyme linked to reduced brain size; study maps 331 genes ...

Cancer is increasingly being diagnosed in people under 30, challenging the belief that it is only an older person's disease.

“By dividing and conquering…we’re seeing responses in multiple different subtypes of sarcoma…and moving toward more of an individualized therapy that we try to design for every patient, where we take ...

A team of biochemists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has developed a faster way to identify molecules in the ...

One of the most abundant living organisms on Earth may also be one of the most vulnerable. A group of ocean bacteria known as ...

"Heart disease takes years to decades to develop, and the process starts in the younger years," one heart doctor told us.

Proteins are the molecular machines of cells. They are produced in protein factories called ribosomes based on their ...

Muscles make up nearly 40% of the human body and power every move we make, from a child's first steps to recovery after ...

In 1869, Swiss scientist Friedrich Miescher isolated a mysterious substance from cell nuclei—an overlooked finding that would ...