Biology

DNA’s replication machinery may be ancient, but one of the newest tools for studying it borrows its logic from artificial...

Freshwater streams may look alike on the surface, but beneath the water, their sediments harbor bacterial communities shaped by forces...

A protein famous for preventing cancer may also help explain why the immune system turns against the body in rheumatoid...

Kirsten Falk, a German scientist whose early experiments helped reveal how the immune system identifies infected cells, has been remembered...

A genetically engineered yeast is producing a laboratory-made version of human type III collagen that folds into the same distinctive...

Bread wheat’s genomic “dark matter” has come into sharper focus in a new analysis that maps thousands of repetitive DNA...

Researchers used tetrabutyl ammonium iodide to extract and characterize lipid-rich compounds from the freshwater cyanobacterium Oscillatoria sp. for potential biofuel...

Researchers propose using V-channel width and inside-V enrichment to distinguish genuine transcription-factor footprints from enzyme-generated artifacts in chromatin-accessibility data.

Side-by-side testing found that the BIOFIRE BioThreat Panel v2.5 had similar or better analytical sensitivity on SPOTFIRE than on FILMARRAY...

A longitudinal analysis of liver transplant recipients found immune-related DNA methylation changes over ten years without significant epigenetic age acceleration.