Wesley Sundquist, Ph.D., chair of the Department of Biochemistry, was awarded the 2024 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize.

James Chen, a professor of microbiology at UT Southwestern Medical Center, has won a Lasker Award for his discovery of an ...

Where do new genes come from? That's the question a team of biological sciences researchers from the U of A set out to answer ...

Molecular Cancer Research publishes articles featuring novel, basic cancer research discoveries that prioritize broad molecular and cellular processes. Areas of emphasis include cell cycle and ...

Brown University ecologists teamed with National Park Service scientists in Yellowstone to answer a vexing question about how ...

Half a century of advancements in biomedical science paved the way for today's powerful weight-loss drugs like Ozempic -- so ...

Grafting has long been a cornerstone in agriculture and forestry, allowing for the propagation of desirable plant traits and ...

Biological scientists at the U of A propose a new model for understanding how new genes and novel functions can originate through recycling and innovation of “junk.” ...

Some researchers believe that Huntington's disease and Parkinson's disease are linked with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder ...

The team of Professor Christof Niehrs at the Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB) in Mainz, Germany, has discovered that a DNA modification called 5-formylcytosine (5fC) functions as an activating ...

An analysis of tissue samples from nearly 1,200 older adults found that the more insertions individuals had, the younger they died.

Thanks to a serendipitous discovery and a lot of painstaking work, scientists can now build biohybrid molecules that combine the homing powers of DNA with the broad functional repertoire of proteins - ...