Why are lemons sour? Delve into the genetic explanations behind the tartness of lemons and their production of citric acid.

In human cells, only a small proportion of the information written in genes is used to produce proteins. How does the cell ...

New research shows that we regularly transfer traces of our genital microbiomes to sexual partners—a discovery that could ...

Human genes that encode proteins often contain non-coding segments known as introns. Removing introns is crucial for the proper expression of genetic information. Understanding how our cells ...

Make your antibiotic medication as effective as possible by getting these answers before you leave the doctor's office or pharmacy.

There are many molecules with therapeutic potential, but it can be a challenge to deliver them to the right places at the ...

New gene therapy modalities, such as CRISPR guide RNA (single guide ribonucleic acid [sgRNA]) and messenger RNA (mRNA), ...

Synthetic biologists from Yale were able to re-write the genetic code of an organism - a novel genomically recoded organism (GRO) with one stop codon - using a cellular platform that they developed ...

Breast cancers can be classified into subgroups that hint at the aggressiveness of the cancer and the likelihood that the ...

O n Friday, February 7, a hearing took place in the Montana state legislature on a bill that would ban the use of mRNA vaccines in humans. The bill was sponsored by State Representative Greg Kmetz ...

By Sage Rohrbach A mosaic image of the Bennu Asteriod, created using pictures from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx satellite that was near the asteroid for over two years. Courtesy of NASA via Wikimedia ...