A tiny, four-fingered "hand" folded from a single piece of DNA can pick up the virus that causes COVID-19 for highly sensitive rapid detection and can even block viral particles from entering cells to ...

It's a regular occurrence when taking our canine pals for drizzly walks and summer swims. But until recently, the biology ...

The Wistar Institute's Alessandro Gardini, Ph.D., and lab have shed new light on how certain biological processes determine ...

Mutations in a complex that helps proteins fold correctly are tied to developmental disorders that include seizures and intellectual disability, Stanford Medicine-led research has found.

Palmer is an associate professor at the University of Chicago whose work sits at the intersection of biology, physics, mathematics, and computer science. When pressed to define her research in a ...

Amino acids are essential for nearly every process in the human body. Often referred to as "the building blocks of life," ...

Thousands of insect species use vibrations to communicate. Now, in part because of the foundational research of a Midwestern ...

The significance of the human gut microbiome, a vast community of microbes in the gastrointestinal tract, has been known for ...

At the heart of every biological process, from the replication of cells to the functioning of the human brain, lies the ...

Researchers recently developed a new approach for identifying new cellular RNA targets of snoRNAs. They uncovered thousands of previously unknown targets for snoRNAs in human cells and mouse brain ...

A new approach for identifying new cellular RNA targets of snoRNAs uncovered thousands of previously unknown targets ...