Our experiences leave traces in the brain, stored in small groups of cells called engrams. Engrams are thought to hold the ...

New research from the University of Wisconsin–Madison reveals that dysfunction in a protein essential to maintaining ...

The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...

Companies that make DNA for science labs screen out any requests for dangerous bits of genetic material. But a new study ...

Researchers at the University of North Carolina have created microscopic soft robots shaped like flowers that can change shape and behavior in response to their surroundings, just like living ...

Chemists at Université de Montréal have developed "signaling cascades" made with DNA molecules to report and quantify the ...