Life’s story may stretch further back than scientists once thought. Some genes found in nearly every organism today were already duplicated before all life shared a common ancestor. By tracking these ...
For life to develop on a planet, certain chemical elements are needed in sufficient quantities. Phosphorus and nitrogen are ...
Scientists have discovered that DNA behaves in a surprising way when squeezed through tiny nanopores, overturning a long-held ...
Among them was David Liu, a biochemist at the Broad Institute and Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Liu isn’t a ...
Ancient duplicated genes are giving scientists their first real clues about what life was like before all life on Earth shared a common ancestor.
Since the dawn of the computer age, researchers have wrestled with two persistent challenges: how to store ever-increasing ...
Over the past two decades, researchers have learned that DNA inside the cell nucleus naturally folds into a network of ...
In 1869, Swiss scientist Friedrich Miescher isolated a mysterious substance from cell nuclei—an overlooked finding that would ...
Scientists prepared a high-quality sequence of the giant mammal’s genome based on a specimen preserved in Siberian permafrost. By Ari Daniel It’s not every day that one gets to hold a chunk of hide ...
The International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation conducts continuous review of new peer-reviewed published cardiopulmonary resuscitation science and publishes annual summaries. More comprehensive ...