A resurrected ancient enzyme is helping scientists test how reliably Earth’s oldest rocks record signs of life.

Frances Arnold's game-changing technique of "directed evolution" creates enzymes with unusual capabilities. Her own evolution made it possible.

In a unique class hosted at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, early-career ecologists learned to apply emerging ...

Cancer is a universal issue which affects many people around the world. Many will turn to surgery in the hope a surgeon will ...

AI protein function prediction uses machine learning models trained on sequence and structural data to infer protein roles at ...

Our joints rely on smooth, resilient cartilage and disc, which act as natural shock absorbers to enable painless movement. However, when these ...

Distinguished Professor and founding director of the Rutgers Center for Lipid Research (RCLR), George Carman, recently received the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology's ...

Fruit flies, mice, zebrafish, yeast and the tiny worm C. elegans are model organisms that have carried modern biology on ...

A research team led by Sahand Jamal Rahi at EPFL’s Laboratory of the Physics of Biological Systems has introduced a new ...

Researchers discovered that the mitochondrial MIM complex influences lipid droplet accumulation in yeast cells through ...

Dr Simon Feldhaus, the chief medical officer of The Balance Rehab Clinic’s Swiss hub and the president of the Swiss Society ...

All complex biological systems—like the DNA, RNA and proteins constantly being copied and built within our cells—are prone to errors. That means as life evolved to be more elaborate, it also had to ...