A microscopic organism from a freshwater pond is playing by a different set of genetic rules. The newly identified protist, ...

Carbon-X can analyze DNA sequences while running on your laptop at home.

Evolutionary biologist Paul Hebert revolutionized biodiversity research with DNA barcoding, inspiring a global effort to ...

Genes are the building blocks of life, and the genetic code provides the instructions for the complex processes that make organisms function. But how and why did it come to be the way it is? "We find ...

The significance of BpyAla-mediated nucleic acid cleavage becomes clearer when placed in the broader context of how natural ...

For millennia, the golden rhizome of Coptis chinensis—known as Huanglian in traditional Chinese medicine—has been prized for its potent alkaloids that fight gastric infections and inflammation. But ...