DNA can voyage along intercellular highways called tunneling nanotubes. It’s a phenomenon that could potentially spread tumor ...

I n December 2020, mRNA vaccines leapt into the limelight as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic. To date, millions of people ...

A cross-section image shows how the gene editing delivery system transduces the mouse brain. Pink marks where the virus reached cells, teal shows all brain cells, and yellow overlay highlights ...

Fingerprinting transformed police investigations by making it possible to place a suspect at a crime scene with physical ...

The strain of hantavirus that has killed three people and sickened five others on a cruise ship is the Andes strain. Here's ...

Scientists at Durham University, working in partnership with Jagiellonian University in Poland, have developed a new nanoscale tool that can capture and precisely position some of the most important ...

DNA robots are emerging as tiny programmable machines that could one day deliver drugs, hunt viruses, and build molecular-scale devices. By borrowing ideas from traditional robotics and combining them ...

Researchers at Aarhus University have developed a microscopic DNA needle that can deliver molecules directly into cells—and, crucially, help make sure they remain active once they get there. That ...

The story of life’s beginnings gets stranger when you look closely at viruses. These tiny entities seem to sit at the edge of biology. They carry genetic material, but they cannot make proteins on ...

Genetics tools have advanced significantly in recent decades, and have allowed scientist to sequence all of the genetic material they find in any sample. That has enabled researchers to discover giant ...

A giant virus discovered in Japan is adding fuel to the provocative idea that viruses helped create complex life. Named ushikuvirus, it infects amoebae and shows unique traits that connect different ...