The microbial toxin colibactin has just the right shape to snuggle up to DNA — but its embrace is unfortunately more cancerous than cozy. Colibactin is produced by bacteria in the gut and causes ...

When scientists sequenced the DNA of a woman who lived to 117, they were not just cataloging the quirks of an extraordinary life. They were probing a question that touches every family: why do some ...

Researchers rediscover tiny tropical land snails, reclassifying lost species and reshaping the tree of life in Central ...

For decades, biology textbooks taught that DNA’s story could be told with a single image: two elegant strands twisting in a ...

A therapy that would once have been considered a feat of science fiction has reversed aggressive and incurable blood cancers in some patients, doctors report. The treatment involves precisely editing ...

Lanice spongicola lives on a glass sponge, a deep-sea sponge with a skeleton made of silica, that rises from hard rock. The ...

Key PointsResearch on HIV's conical capsid that began over 25 years ago led to the development of lenacapavir, the world's first capsid inhibitor.In ...

For years, ETH researchers have been investigating a molecular complex that plays a key role in protein synthesis. They have ...

Diets, Food Health Benefits, Diseases, Therapy Share and Cite: Menkovska, M. and Raza, S. (2025) Human Gut Microbiome in ...

A noninvasive blood test to detect genetic material shed by tumors may help clinicians identify adverse events related to treatment with immune checkpoint inhibitor drugs, investigators at the Johns ...

A team of researchers has generated one of the most detailed 3D maps of human chromosomes, cataloging over 140,000 DNA looping interactions.

Although it also performs some functions in men, estrogen, the main female sex hormone, is involved in a myriad of processes, ...