Nitrogen, upon which all life on Earth depends, may hold the key for explaining how early life on the planet evolved and how it could evolve on other planets.

The immune system must maintain a delicate balance to defend against harmful threats while avoiding excessive inflammation.

Researchers identified AlCas12a, a compact, versatile enzyme that improves CRISPR gene editing and enables faster molecular ...

The complex precursors to biological molecules can form spontaneously in interstellar space, according to a lab experiment ...

A single enzyme that can generate all four nucleotide triphosphates, the building blocks of ribonucleic acid (RNA), was ...

Scientists have discovered an enzyme that drives fat production and shown that blocking it prevents weight gain and lowers cholesterol in mice. Obesity is now one of the most widespread health ...

Researchers at Nano Life Science Institute (WPI-NanoLSI) and the Cancer Research Institute at Kanazawa University have ...

Spanish researchers discover AlCas12a, a groundbreaking enzyme for next-generation gene editing.The protein, discovered in wastewater, is smaller, ...

A new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, its Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that an ...

Seventy-six peer-reviewed studies were published in fiscal year 2025, the highest annual number to date, bringing the total to nearly 630 KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla., Jan. 29, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The ...

Scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have completed a spaceflight biology investigation aboard the International Space Station (ISS) that reveals how microgravity fundamentally ...

Researchers visualized ALK fusion proteins in real time. They showed that ALK inhibitors reshape flexible protein regions to ...