He and a colleague proved a theory advanced by the Nobel Prize winners James Watson and Francis Crick, who discovered DNA’s ...

Franklin W. Stahl, an American molecular biologist whose landmark 1957-58 experiment with colleague Matthew Meselson revealed ...

New imaging tools reveal how within an hour of infection, the virus begins to alter our chromosomes to kick-start its own replication.

The cold sore-causing Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV-1) hijacks human cells and reconfigures its DNA within just an hour after infection, according to a new study that may help tackle the pathogen.

The being in question is a microbe called Sukunaarchaeum mirabile. Preliminary research says it stretches the definition of ...

Infomercial channels are riddled with the next-best hair-loss solution, but those toupees, ointments, and hair plugs might ...

But in a recent breakthrough, researchers have uncovered a surprisingly simple target in the herpes simplex virus-1 (HSV-1), the culprit behind cold sores. What they found, however, is much more than ...

Researchers have found a new way to optimise the design molecular motors, bringing us one step closer to making synthetic molecular machines a reality ...

A strategy that analyzes the structural properties of RNA could help identify regions that are promising targets for antiviral drugs.

Imagine if you could "print" a tiny skyscraper using DNA instead of steel. That’s what researchers at Columbia and Brookhaven ...

When the Empire State Building was constructed, its 102 stories rose above midtown one piece at a time, with each individual ...