Long before modern humans built cities or carved out farms, woolly mammoths wandered across frozen plains with thick coats ...

Scientists recovered authentic RNA from woolly mammoths preserved in Siberian permafrost, something researchers said had ...

This image depicts the chemical structure of cytosine. It shows a hexagonal ring with nitrogen atoms at positions 1 and 3, and a primary amine group attached to carbon 4. The two remaining positions ...

The iMolecule group from Skoltech has developed an artificial intelligence-driven solution that uses data on the structure of RNA or DNA molecules to identify sites on them where interaction with ...

Scientists have managed to rescue the molecule, against all odds, from a calf that died after being attacked by cave lions ...

Researchers have designed a smart drug that hunts down and breaks a little-known RNA that cancer cells depend on. The drug ...

Within each cell, there is a constant struggle between life-sustaining molecules and molecules that could hasten its demise.

Comparison of a single-stranded RNA and a double-stranded DNA with their corresponding nucleobases. (Image: Wikimedia Commons, CC SA 3.0) The most common type of base pairing is the Watson-Crick base ...

Researchers used cryo-EM to study how the HIV enzyme integrase arranges in 3D to slip its DNA into the host genome and pack its genetic material into new viral particles.

James Watson, who co-discovered the structure of DNA has died at age 97. He was a scientific superstar until he made racist ...