Researchers have sequenced proteins from an ancient rhino relative from the cold, dry Haughton crater site (shown) in the ...

DNA makes RNA, RNA makes protein, protein makes phenotype—was the guiding framework for understanding inheritance and disease ...

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For nearly a century, scientists have been puzzling over fossils from a strange and robust-looking distant relative of early humans: Paranthropus robustus. It walked upright, and was built for heavy ...

Scientists have shed new light on the rhino family tree after recovering a protein sequence from a fossilized tooth from more ...

Scientists made a surprising discovery when studying fossils of a distant human relative – Paranthropus robustus ...

New imaging tools reveal how within an hour of infection, the virus begins to alter our chromosomes to kick-start its own replication.

Could we replace the brain with computer chips? Reality is much more complex and the brain seems to be much more than just a biological computer.

Centromeres, specialized regions located at the center of chromosomes, are critical for ensuring proper cell division. During mitosis, centromeres serve as assembly sites for complex protein ...

New research challenges the view that proteins are the only key to evolution, highlighting the importance of lipids.

We are going to push the boundaries of biological design way beyond individual protein molecules to more complex systems involving many proteins, or to proteins bound to RNA or DNA.

Now, researchers used cryoelectron microscopy (cryo-EM) to elucidate the structure of the Nipah virus polymerase complex (the large protein and phosphoprotein).