A single tooth can contain valuable clues to a person's identity, even when remains are severely decomposed or reduced to bones, according to a study by researchers at the Institute of Science Tokyo.

With further development, the findings could provide the basis for new technologies such as energy-efficient computer memory.

A single preoperative blood sample may help improve the prediction of recurrence or metastasis in patients with colorectal ...

A laboratory study in Aspergillus nidulans found that three conserved arginines in VelB’s DNA-binding region were required ...

The study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, deepens ...

“Penicillin, vancomycin, tetracycline — with all of these antibiotics, it wasn’t some clever medicinal chemist who discovered them, it was nature,” says Andrew M. Gulick, PhD, professor of structural ...

Orexin reveals how a small brain peptide controls wakefulness, explains narcolepsy, and inspires new treatments—and a search for the genome’s hidden proteins.

Where did it start? How did it grow complex? Why did it get big? Three moments in Earth’s early history when evolution ...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of Richard Dawkins’ seminal book, The Selfish Gene, first published by Oxford University Press on January 1, 1976, a heady time when the United […] ...

The new generative AI system RFdiffusion3 designs proteins and nucleic acids atom by atom, producing functional enzymes and ...

Today, my husband brought me something and said, "It's not a paper about cats, but it's an interesting one." It's about how ...

Late last month, Anthropic claimed it had discovered a curious stretch of DNA in a virus called a bacteriophage that repeats ...