Artificial DNA letters beyond A, T, G, C break a fundamental pairing rule to produce nanostructures with new shapes, far greater durability, and an unexpected ability to self-sort.

Though it seems unremarkable, Yellowstone's Mushroom Pool might be the most important thermal feature in history. A discovery from its waters led to ...

Researchers at the University of Geneva have built a molecular system that can tell the difference between a cancer cell and ...

Researchers at the Université de Genève have built a DNA-based drug delivery system that reads pairs of protein markers on a ...

A genome-editing approach called INSTALL combines single-stranded DNA molecules that evade immune detection with a short double-stranded region that allows recombinase enzymes to insert a DNA sequence ...

New research has discovered that the molecular machines responsible for copying our DNA have a surprising hidden talent—an ...

CRISPR is a powerful DNA-editing tool that has underpinned huge advancements in human health care in the last decade. It is a precision tool, but is not perfect, and misplaced DNA edits can compromise ...

A cancer drug target already being investigated in clinical trials turns out to be doing something even more consequential ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: In 2015, a paleoanthropology team discovered jaw remains of a roughly 42,000-year-old Neanderthal in France. Over the next several years, the team, ...