It's a common storytelling trope: the stubborn foe who is eventually revealed to be a much-needed friend. Biology has its own ...

Study reveals 20 DNA markers in fast-twitch muscle that predict age within 4 years and explain why sprinting declines before ...

Membraneless organelles, also called biomolecular condensates, are changing how scientists think about protein chemistry, ...

Jyoti Vakhlu [email protected] From laws of inheritance to the molecule of heredity – a journey of scientific triumphs, ethical fault-lines and the end of an era with the passing of ...

The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.

Inside every human cell, six feet of DNA folds into a nucleus that is only a few micrometers wide, yet still manages to ...

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

This week in Science, Michael K. Rosen and 10 other members of a large collaboration at the Marine Biological Laboratory, the Chromatin Consortium, propose a long-awaited model for how the properties ...

The vampire squid genome shows it kept ancient features shared with squids, while octopuses gained major chromosomal changes.

They want obedient workers. Obedient workers. People who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork, and ...

Determining whether a budgerigar is male or female isn’t always obvious at first glance–yet identifying the gender is crucial for harmonious coexistence in the aviary. Especially when keeping only two ...

Cells are not immortal, and that is a good thing. After a certain number of divisions, many human cells stop multiplying for ...