A new study has uncovered a hidden step that helps the deadliest malaria parasite survive and multiply inside the human body. Researchers studying Plasmodium falciparum found that the parasite relies ...

Scientists have just discovered an entirely new way that DNA can be synthesized. The business of constructing DNA ...

The ability to precisely edit the genomes of bacteria has long been a goal of microbiologists. Such technology would enable ...

A cancer drug target already being investigated in clinical trials turns out to be doing something even more consequential than researchers realized. Scientists at Scripps Research have discovered ...

Scientists show DNA polymerases can build long, patterned DNA without a template called "doodling," opening new paths for ...

New research suggests DNA may not need activation, challenging a long-held idea about how life began and reshaping ...

Cyanobacteria—ancient microbes that oxygenated Earth and made complex life possible—are still revealing surprises billions of ...