Our DNA is arranged into chromosomes that carry a kind of protective shield at their ends, called telomeres. These protective ...

At times, aging doesn’t become evident in wrinkles or in gray hair, it occurs deep inside your body, in cells that have ...

His collaboration with biophysicist Francis Crick on the molecular key to all living organisms would make him one of the most ...

Biochemistry and Cell Biology together form the molecular foundation of life, providing insight into the chemical reactions that sustain biological processes and the structural organisation that ...

Using next-generation instruments and groundbreaking DNA-reading techniques, scientists have uncovered much of the genetic code of the woolly mammoth, a prehistoric species of ele ...

Mingyuan Zhu, Ph.D., Bo Zhou, Ph.D., and Roop Fatima Jaffri, Ph.D., have joined the Texas A&M Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics.

T he bowhead whale is the world’s longest-living mammal, sometimes making it to a staggering 200 years old. How does it do it ...

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