A system once tied to DNA organization in cyanobacteria has evolved into a structure that shapes the cell itself. This shift ...

New analytical methods developed at Baylor College of Medicine and collaborating institutions have increased our understanding of how bacteria manage DNA. The methods enabled researchers to uncover ...

Everyday DNA mutations can help us understand immune function and aging—and even mitigate harm caused by some inherited ...

The human brain is one of the most complex parts of the body. It controls how we think, feel, remember, and behave.

Scientists have captured the most detailed structural images to date of a specific type of protein's DNA repair process, a ...

In the early 1980s, David Gilmour, now an emeritus biochemistry and molecular biology professor at Pennsylvania State University, joined the laboratory of geneticist and biochemist John Lis as a ...

In Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking-Glass," Alice is stuck in a never-ending race with the Red Queen yet never gains a lead. "It takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place," the ...