SMC (structural maintenance of chromosomes) protein complexes are ring-shaped molecular motors essential for genome folding. Despite recent progress, the detailed molecu ...

Hellcat has pushed the limits of American muscle, producing monstrous powerplants with horsepower numbers once thought unthinkable. Here are the coolest ones.

What makes the human brain distinctive? A new study published July 21 in Cell identifies two genes linked to human brain ...

What makes the human brain distinctive? A new study published in Cell identifies two genes linked to human brain features and ...

What scientists once dismissed as “junk” DNA may actually be some of the most powerful code in our genome. A new ...

Scientists have used DNA's self-assembling properties to engineer intricate moiré superlattices at the nanometer ...

Tiny fat bubbles carrying gene therapy have successfully repaired DNA in the lungs and liver of animals with alpha-1 ...

An easy method for efficiently identifying proteins that interact with bioactive molecules has been developed by chemical biologists at RIKEN. This innovation, published in ChemBioChem, could help to ...

This makes it far easier to perform this type of assembly in real life, because you’d need to generate a much smaller set of custom DNA molecules. These would then be mixed together and, voila, you’d ...