Every cell in your body contains the same genetic sequence, yet each cell expresses only a subset of those genes. These ...

In living organisms, protein molecules with different chemical structures called proteoforms, are produced from a single gene ...

Japanese scientists detected all five nucleobases — building blocks of DNA and RNA — in samples returned from asteroid Bennu ...

University of Illinois Chicago scientists have redesigned a treatment for the most common pediatric leukemia to eliminate its severe side effects, like blood clots and liver damage. If approved, the ...

Uric acid is a waste product found in urine. If your body makes too much or doesn't eliminate enough of it, uric acid levels can become too high—a condition known as hyperuricemia. High uric acid ...

Credit: Natural History Museum, London/Tobias Salge and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Public Domain Another unexpected find had to do with the way the amino acid structures were oriented ...