When researchers look for potential cancer therapy targets, they typically go after protein-coding genes that participate in ...

Acetylation of lysine residues in the tail domain of histone H3 is well characterized, but lysine residues in the histone globular domain are also acetylated. Histone modifications in globular domain ...

A new gene-editing technique enables the correction of multiple genetic mutations simultaneously, transforming the prospects ...

The Age of AI will rely on massive volumes of data that can be easily stored and retrieved—and bioscience may have an ingenious solution. A scientist examines a DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) profile on ...

Although heart cells and skin cells contain identical instructions for creating proteins encoded in their DNA, they're able ...

When Napoleon marched into Russia in 1812, he brought with him the largest army Europe had ever seen. When he limped back out, he’d met his match — not in muskets or cannon fire, but in microbes.

Summer McKesson struggled to breathe for years. Doctors told her it was because her blood would not stop clotting – and they couldn’t figure out why. A single clot alone can be lethal; but the ...

But the Russian Empire had been resisting his efforts to cut off all trade with Britain. That summer, he ordered his army, some 600,000 strong, to invade Russia. It would prove to be a terrible ...

Genetic material pulled from 13 teeth found in a grave in Lithuania revealed infectious diseases that felled the French emperor’s troops as they withdrew from Russia. By Gina Kolata Napoleon’s army ...

WAUSEON, Ohio — James Worley, the Fulton County man sentenced to death for the 2016 abduction and murder of Sierah Joughin, is continuing his bid to overturn his conviction, arguing that his trial ...

Researchers at the University of North Carolina have created microscopic soft robots shaped like flowers that can change shape and behavior in response to their surroundings, just like living ...

For more than four decades, the suspect in the 1981 murder of Elizabeth King at her Moffatt Avenue home remained a mystery. Her case file sat untouched in the archives until September of last year.