The tiny device uses a tightly focused beam of light to capture and manipulate cells. MIT researchers have developed a miniature, chip-based “tractor beam,” like the one that captures the Millennium ...

DNA catapults into spotlight. A trio of research papers from Stanford Medicine researchers and their international ...

Scientists have discovered a way to target elusive circular fragments of DNA that drive the survival of some of the most aggressive cancers, paving the way for future treatments.

Geneticists looking inside the nuclear genome for mutations that contribute to disease have long relied on a principal known ...

Scientists have long wondered how the first cell membranes formed from the primordial soup—a new study offers up a recipe.

"We think the ways tardigrades have evolved to withstand extreme environments on this planet may also be what protects them ...

Analysis of ancient DNA from the ashen casts of Pompeii victims changes presumed relationships between them, and reveals the ...

A trio of research papers from Stanford Medicine researchers and their international collaborators transforms scientists' understanding of how small DNA circles -; until recently dismissed as ...

Tiny circles called ecDNA are critical in cancer development and drug resistance. An international team publishes landmark studies detailing new findings and potential therapies.

The "RNA world" hypothesis proposes that the earliest life on Earth may have been based on RNA—a single-stranded molecule similar in many ways to DNA—like some modern viruses. This is because, like ...