By resurrecting a 3.2-billion-year-old enzyme and studying it inside living microbes, researchers at the University of ...

One of the most detailed 3D maps of how the human chromosomes are organized and folded within a cell's nucleus is published in Nature. Chromosomes are thread-like structures that carry a cell's ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

A surge of 147% in a single session is an unusual occurrence in biotech — and nearly unprecedented for a company that has spent years trading discreetly under the radar. However, that is precisely ...

It wasn't hard to be optimistic about the biotech's future, given its excellent news from the lab on Monday. Prognosticators fell over themselves publishing bullish new takes on the company the ...

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“The laws of inheritance are quite unknown,” Charles Darwin acknowledged in 1859. The discovery of DNA’s shape altered how we conceived of life itself. The X-ray crystallography by Rosalind Franklin ...

AMERICA’s BODY corporate looks, as a whole, to be in rude health. One large company after another is presenting record quarterly results. Bosses are raising profit forecasts left and right. Poke and ...

The biotech earned an important fast-track review designation from a major regulator. This should speed the development (and potentially, commercialization) of one of its investigational treatments.

Local investigators working with cutting-edge technology and a Texas-based company are solving decades-old murders, identifying unknown remains and bringing closure to families who never expected ...

Naked mole-rats are well known for both their wrinkly appearance and for their unexpectedly long lives. The source of this extended lifespan has been under scrutiny for decades. While many rodents are ...

New work shows that physical folding of the genome to control genes located far away may have been a critical turning point for life on Earth. For evolutionary biologists, what most distinguishes the ...