A remarkably small bacterium containing fewer than 500 genes serves as the basis for one of the most detailed digital life reconstructions ever created. Using computer technology, scientists have ...

After a decade of quiet groundwork in Australia, Royal London Asset Management has revamped its fund offerings and hired an experienced funds management leader to build its Australian office, betting ...

This refers to DNA from animals that is found in the environment as a result of natural shedding. Think: dead skin, feces, ...

The research team used a 'new chemical strategy' to create plastic that would degrade naturally.

They’re tenacious, which is very good for a milk jug or a car bumper. But they don’t easily break down, which is bad for the environment. From the 1950s, when plastics were first produced in ...

Top Prize Editor’s Choice by Jesse Plotkin, Department of Neuroscience and Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research Every year, the College of Natural Sciences invites faculty, staff and ...

From female scientists whose work was credited to men to ancient high priestesses, these women truly changed history—but were also overlooked by it.

Athlete Dina Asher-Smith holds records in both the 100 and 200 metres races. In her early years as a sprinter, she won school championship titles in 2010, 2011 and 2013, and achieved gold medals in ...

Herpes simplex virus partially liquefies the tightly packed, gel-like interior of human cell nuclei to copy itself faster, a new study shows. The research centers on how the nucleus of each human cell ...

An inmate at the Luzerne County Correctional Facility facing a firearm offense after multiple shots were allegedly fired into an occupied apartment building was ordered to provide a DNA sample.

New research reveals that ancient interbreeding between humans and Neanderthals shaped our modern human DNA - especially on ...

As metals fuse and sparks fly, one researcher’s work takes the form of DNA, a bacteriophage, a nucleosome, and more.