When the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the world in 2020, the mRNA vaccines came to the rescue of many people—but in the ...

Scientists have created an artificial RNA system that can copy itself using simple building blocks and temperature changes.

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have reconciled two closely related but contentious mechanisms underlying ...

A deeper understanding of how DNA changes over generations helps scientists learn why people differ and how diseases develop.