Within each cell, there is a constant struggle between life-sustaining molecules and molecules that could hasten its demise.

When two of the most powerful people in the world enthusiastically discuss how science is on the verge of finding the secret ...

A naturally occurring gene called Cyclin A2 (CCNA2), which turns off after birth in humans, can actually make new, functioning heart cells and help the heart repair itself from injury, including a ...

A company’s plan to edit the genomes of human embryos worries some researchers — but it might reflect the changing attitudes ...

Sections of DNA once dismissed as dormant and useless could in fact be recruited to fight certain types of drug-resistant ...

A team from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology has discovered a new class of bacterial mobile genetic elements that use giant viruses—known as jumbo phages—to move between cells. The ...