Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the oldest and deadliest infectious diseases we know. It commonly impacts the lungs, but can also ...

An archaeon reads the same codon in two different ways, overturning a doctrine that has stood for 60 years. Living organisms ...

Cr yo-ET captured dozens of projection images of each slice from different angles. Computational processing then stitched ...

DNA found in cave sediments is helping scientists unlock secrets of the Ice Age, offering unprecedented insights into ancient ...

The DNA inside our cells is constantly being damaged, and one of the worst kinds of damage is a double-strand break-when both sides of the DNA helix are cut at once.

New ultra-detailed imaging exposes the hidden structure and behavior of chromatin condensates — and hints at how their ...

Inside human cells, biology has pulled off the ultimate packing job, figuring out how to fit six feet of DNA into a nucleus ...

Recent research has delved deep into the manifold ways in which diet can affect gut health throughout a person's life. Here ...

This week in Science, Michael K. Rosen and 10 other members of a large collaboration at the Marine Biological Laboratory, the ...

Many of the ancient southern Africans, including those who lived between about 10,200 and 1,400 years ago, "fall outside the ...

Tiny repeated stretches of DNA in your genome may quietly shape how your body works, how your brain develops and how you ...