What if the brain's response to stress could be read not in fleeting neurotransmitter bursts, but in the quieting of genes ...

The scientist who discovered hybridization and the "other" double helix describes what it meant to biology. By Alexander Rich Fifty-two years ago I was venturing to the basement of Cal Tech chemistry ...

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

The first sprayable insecticide made of RNA can target and kill ravenous Colorado potato beetles while sparing most ...

Francesca Storici consults at Tessera Therapeutics. She has received funding from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. Your DNA is continually damaged by sources both ...

Thomas Gingeras did not intend to upend basic ideas about how the human body works. In 2012 the geneticist, now at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York State, was one of a few hundred colleagues ...