Digital Science

For decades, biologists have believed a key enzyme in plants had one function -- produce amino acids, which are vital to plant survival and also essential to…

The complex 3D structure of one of the world's most lethal families of plant viruses has been revealed in unprecedented detail by scientists at the UK's…

BrainStorm Cell Therapeutics is considering providing an experimental therapy to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patients under the recently passed U.S.…

Researchers who've analyzed ancient mitochondrial (mt)DNA isolated from a 22,000-year-old panda found in Cizhutuo Cave in the Guangxi Province of China -- a…

Last summer, a team of scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital presented evidence showing that the tuberculosis vaccine bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG)…

Princeton University researchers Qiang Ding, Alexander Ploss, and colleagues have identified one of the mechanisms by which ZIKA virus (ZIKV) circumvents immune…

Many cancer deaths are the result of metastasis, the process in which tumor cells grow and migrate to other sites within the body. Tiny packages called…

Molecular Partners has rejigged its leadership team, hiring Pamela Trail, Ph.D., from Regeneron to serve as CSO and shunting Michael Stumpp, Ph.D., across to…

Washington State University researchers have seen how both humans and fruit flies deploy a protein that plays a critical role in their immune responses to…

RNA modifications can encrypt the RNA code and are responsible for a very sophisticated control of RNA function. A Danish-German research team has shown that…