From high-impact hires to national academic honors, there is no shortage of exciting developments across RSU Athletics. The Hillcats have welcomed back familiar faces in key leadership roles — ...

Study results advance understanding of how human cells evolved and could help point to new solutions for patients with rare genetic diseases.

He and a colleague proved a theory advanced by the Nobel Prize winners James Watson and Francis Crick, who discovered DNA’s ...

Franklin Stahl, together with Matthew Meselson, proved DNA’s semiconservative replication in “the most beautiful experiment” ...

If measured from beginning to end, the DNA in our cells is too long to fit into the cell's nucleus, explaining why it must be ...

Each time a cell divides, a small section of each chromosome's protective cap—the telomere—is worn away. Most cells use an ...

In this interview, Professor James J. Collins, founder of the field of Synthetic Biology, discusses his journey to founding ...

This important study looks into the effect of exogenous CoA on the response of TLR4-activated macrophages. Specifically, CoA enhances the LPS response by examining metabolomics, 13C tracing, and ...

Plants produce a wide diversity of compounds. Broadly, these are separated into primary metabolites, which are necessary for ...

The Byers Award recognizes outstanding research by faculty members in the middle of their careers. Martin Kampman’s honorary 2025 lecture is titled “A CRISPR approach to neurodegenerative diseases.” ...

Molecular evolution is the area of evolutionary biology that studies evolutionary change at the level of the DNA sequence. It includes the study of rates of sequence change, relative importance of ...

News & Views 29 Mar 2024 Nature Structural & Molecular Biology Volume: 31, P: 859-860 ...