Everyone knows that the fall brings flu season, replete with aches, pains and a new version of the vaccine. But why is cold ...

The rate of HIV infection continues to climb globally. Around 40 million people live with HIV-1, the most common HIV strain.

Inside every cell, a finely tuned metabolic network determines when to build, recycle, or stop producing essential molecules.

MIT researchers discovered that the genome’s 3D structure doesn’t vanish during cell division as previously thought. Instead, tiny loops called microcompartments remain (and even strengthen) while ...

A surprising discovery reveals how a single protein helps cells decide when to make the building blocks of DNA. Researchers ...

The Hippo signaling pathway that helps control tissue size in animals and malfunctions in cancers already existed before ...

Those silver strands could be an outward sign of the body’s own intricate defences against cancer, a recent study in mice has ...

New antivirals and vaccines could follow the discovery by Australian researchers of strategies used by viruses to control our ...

Scientists found a virus-like living entity in human bodies named "obelisks" - small loops of RNA, each a thousand genetic ...

The non-coding genome, once dismissed as "junk DNA", is now recognized as a fundamental regulator of gene expression and a key player in understanding complex diseases. Following the landmark ...

In 1862, Victor Hugo reportedly wrote to his publisher to ask how his newly published novel Les Misérables was selling, with a single character query: “?” The response: “!” This story of one of the ...