Long before modern humans built cities or carved out farms, woolly mammoths wandered across frozen plains with thick coats and steady steps. Their bones, tusks, and frozen bodies have offered clues to ...

This image depicts the chemical structure of cytosine. It shows a hexagonal ring with nitrogen atoms at positions 1 and 3, and a primary amine group attached to carbon 4. The two remaining positions ...

Scientists have managed to rescue the molecule, against all odds, from a calf that died after being attacked by cave lions ...

RNAs play an integral part in all kingdoms of life and mediate critical processes from gene regulation to genomic maintenance and protein synthesis. RNAs also have an amazing diversity in structure ...

Researchers have designed a smart drug that hunts down and breaks a little-known RNA that cancer cells depend on. The drug ...

Researchers used cryo-EM to study how the HIV enzyme integrase arranges in 3D to slip its DNA into the host genome and pack its genetic material into new viral particles.

James Watson, who co-discovered the structure of DNA has died at age 97. He was a scientific superstar until he made racist ...