Northwestern Medicine scientists have uncovered new details about how poxvirus hijacks its host's protein synthesis machinery ...

Created for a third atomic bomb, the Demon Core never left the lab but still killed two scientists in chilling, real-life ...

Infections caused by herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) can lead to HSV-1 encephalitis—a rare but deadly condition that ...

Infections caused by herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) can lead to HSV-1 encephalitis—a rare but deadly condition that ...

Three biomedical research projects conducted NCSU Wilson College of Textiles researchers demonstrate advances in health care ...

The mammalian liver has an extraordinary regenerative capacity, capable of fully restoring its mass and function after injury ...

New research from Max Planck Institute reveals how plants defend their genomes from invasion by chloroplast DNA.

At some point, RNA must have replicated itself before the evolutionary arrival of DNA and proteins, and now we might know how ...

DNA's double helix has long stood as the symbol of life’s code. But buried within the genome lies a deeper level of complexity. One of the more intriguing discoveries in recent years is the i-motif—a ...

A change to a single gene in the bacterium Yersinia pestis has enabled one of the world’s most notorious pathogens to survive ...