Why do these goals matter? Focussing on these goals helps to draw people's attention, Prioritizing these goals at a global scale forces...

KAIST researchers have been able to dial-up and down creatures' lifespans by altering the activity of proteins found in roundworm cells...

Key points: The microbes were present in clay samples about 74.5 meters under the seafloor, below 5.7 km of water Geomicrobiologist Yuki...

Researchers from the University of Oxford's Department of Zoology have discovered that moderate doses of antibiotics restrict the...

Perseverance is a Mars rover manufactured by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for use in NASA's Mars 2020 mission. Nearly identical in...

The first end-to-end (‘telomere-to-telomere’) completely gapless DNA sequence of a human chromosome is a major milestone for genomics...

Four-stranded DNA has been seen before in some cancer cells and in lab-based chemistry experiments, but this is the first time the...

A coronavirus vaccine developed by the University of Oxford appears safe and triggers an immune response. Trials involving 1,077 people...

Molecular biologists and bioengineers at the University of California San Diego have unraveled key mechanisms behind the mysteries of...

US scientists have developed a method of making precise edits to mitochondrial DNA within living cells. Researchers from the Broad...

Researchers have discovered a technique for directly reprogramming skin cells into light-sensing rod photoreceptors used for vision. The...

Ultraviolet light has been used to stop pathogens in their tracks for decades. But does it work against SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind the...

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have characterised the structure of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein as well as its most similar...

The new hormone that stimulates sexual functions in fish could lead to novel infertility treatments in humans. When University of Ottawa...

Using mouse models, the researchers identified and validated a new treatment target -- a toxic protein resulting from the genetic...

"We've succeeded in directly reprogramming a variety of mouse cell types into what we're calling 'induced hair cell-like cells, or iHCs,"...

Typically, there aren't a lot of positive thoughts when E.coli, generally found in animal and human intestines are mentioned. It's been...