Research into how a father’s choices — such as diet, exercise, stress, nicotine use — may transfer traits to his children has ...

Proteins are among the most important molecular building blocks of life. They are chains of amino acids assembled in our cells by ribosomes, the molecular "protein factories" of our bodies. The ...

Agriculture, from the outset, has been made possible by humans tweaking the genes of plants to make them grow faster, produce ...

To ensure that protein production in our cells runs smoothly, the protein complex NAC slows down the rate of protein ...

Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming medicine’s most powerful microscope, revealing patterns in human DNA that were ...

Most languages use word position and sentence structure to extract meaning. For example, "The cat sat on the box," is not the ...

Bacteria use a short RNA guide to detect viruses and activate a self-destruct mechanism that protects the wider microbial ...

Cancer’s most catastrophic DNA damage has long looked like a crime scene without a culprit, with chromosomes shattered and ...

Some plants have multiple insects that can pollinate them. Conditions such as the weather or the season can reduce this ...