The development of an embryo is one of the most fundamental processes in biology. Early in this process, it is determined ...

The rapid advances in machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) are transforming biology and opening new directions for scientific inquiry.

Researchers use AI to discover 14 distinct nucleosome states, revealing that DNA packaging acts as a "volume dial" for gene ...

New interpretations suggest that Neanderthal and Sapiens interactions were shaped by biology and social structure, not simple ...

In a poorly equipped Madras lab, a thirty-one-year-old physicist solved the structure of collagen using kangaroo tendon from ...

Cyanobacteria—ancient microbes that oxygenated Earth and made complex life possible—are still revealing surprises billions of ...

10x Science has raised a $4.8 million seed round to help pharmaceutical researchers understand complex molecules.

Every cell in the human body squeezes over six feet of DNA into a minuscule speck invisible to the naked eye—like compressing ...

For the first time, a stem cell model has produced a structure resembling an early human embryo with a yolk-sac-like structure, from a single starting stem cell population and without direct genetic ...

The bacterial flagellar motor is finally understood after 50 years. In its workings, columnist Natalie Wolchover finds the ...

A new computational study led by University at Buffalo scientists and published April 21 in Biophysical Journal sheds light ...

On 25 April 1953, Watson and Crick published an article, in the acclaimed journal “Nature” titled “Molecular structure of nucleic acids: A structure for deoxyribonucleic acid”. The one-page article ...