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DNA makes RNA, RNA makes protein, protein makes phenotype—was the guiding framework for understanding inheritance and disease ...

Imagine the magnificent glaciers of Greenland, the eternal snow of the Tibetan high mountains, and the permanently ice-cold ...

Inflammaging might not be a universal feature of ageing after all. Instead, it could be a byproduct of how we live in modern ...

Researchers at the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar) in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, are developing a panel of ...

A promising path to fighting COVID and other coronaviruses may have been based on a serious mistake. Scientists had zeroed in ...

Hemifusomes are fused vesicles, or sacs of fluid, that were previously unknown to exist inside cells. They were discovered ...

Researchers have described proteins that they say are among the most ancient ever sequenced. Two teams, which analysed ...

Scientists have developed a new molecule that can deliver powerful immune-activating treatment directly to cancer cells, ...

The El Segundo-based start-up is building infrastructure to support manufacturing in microgravity and test hypersonic reentry ...