The SpudCell certainly resembles a living cell, but a key structure inside the cell falls short of the real thing ...

The American Cancer Society recently updated its colorectal cancer screening guideline for the first time since 2018 by ...

The oldest question in biology has a trap built into it. DNA holds the instructions for making proteins. Proteins are needed ...

A sugar found in raspberries and sunless tanning products has turned up near the Milky Way’s center. The discovery marks the ...

Sugars are key biomolecules in living organisms, as they form the backbone of DNA and RNA and play a fundamental role in ...

Professor Kim V. Narry became the first Asian scientist to receive the HFSP Nakasone Award for RNA discoveries that helped ...

For decades, researchers studying myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) have focused on the disease's underlying genetic cause: a ...

For decades, scientists have searched the depths of space for clues to one of humanity’s biggest mysteries: how life began.

For decades, researchers studying myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) have focused on the disease's underlying genetic cause: a mutation that produces a toxic form of RNA, disrupting the normal processing ...

An international team led by CAB researcher Izaskun Jiménez-Serra has now identified the first sugar in interstellar space: erythrulose. This molecule is the only possible four-carbon ketose, and on ...

It’s the first time a sugar molecule has been detected in interstellar space. The discovery provides tantalizing new clues ...

Extrachromosomal circular DNA has been identified as a novel component of stress granule cores, indicating its essential involvement in eukaryotic stress response pathways at the level of protein ...