If severe DNA damage is not repaired, the consequences for the health of cells and tissues are dramatic. A study led by ...

A new study has uncovered a hidden step that helps the deadliest malaria parasite survive and multiply inside the human body. Researchers studying Plasmodium falciparum found that the parasite relies ...

Researchers studying the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum have discovered a previously unknown stage in its life cycle ...

In May 1952, Rosalind Franklin and Raymond Gosling captured Photo 51, a crucial X-ray diffraction image revealing DNA's helical structure. Franklin's meticulous analysis provided precise measurements ...

Different DNA Structures Nucleate the Folding of Proteins to form specific complexes that modulate the readout of ...

Every time a cell divides, it must copy its entire genome so that each daughter cell inherits a complete set of DNA. During that process, enzymes known as polymerases race along the DNA to copy its ...

Researchers in the Raman Lab at UW recently published a study discussing sending microbes into space at the International ...

Ancient duplicated genes are giving scientists their first real clues about what life was like before all life on Earth ...