Innovative research into the gene-editing tool targets influenza’s ability to replicate—stopping it in its tracks.

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

For the first time, scientists have captured how new antiviral drugs halt the herpes virus in real time as it tries to ...

Foundation has advocated preservation of animals’ DNA as a long-term scientific strategy to help regenerate species ...

What scientists long believed were knots in DNA may actually be persistent twists formed during nanopore analysis, revealing ...

A new CRISPR breakthrough shows scientists can turn genes back on without cutting DNA, by removing chemical tags that act ...

With a storage capacity of 36 petabytes, a DNA-based cassette tape can hold every song every recorded, and it could be on the ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising viral shortcut that turns moving cells into delivery vehicles for infection. Instead of spreading one virus at a time, infected cells bundle viral material into ...

Researchers identify a shared RNA-protein interaction that could lead to broad-spectrum antiviral treatments for ...

Scientists are uncovering surprising truths about what dinosaur meat might have tasted like, and which species you could have ...

NASA’s Mars rover finds organic signals in mudstone that resemble microbial activity, sparking new debate over life on the ...