A strange molecular pattern, first mistaken for an error, led researchers to an unexpected discovery: molecules forming ...

Stanford Medicine researchers sifted through thousands of single nucleotide mutations in DNA to identify fewer than 400 that are functionally associated with inherited cancer risk.

First discovered in 2010, the ‘Red Lady of El Mirón’ is an ochre-coated skeleton that provides a glimpse into human life ...

Where would carbon-based life be without carbon? There are 118 known chemical elements, but carbon is the fourth most ...

In a study published in Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, scientists from the Department of Medical Biochemistry and ...

For more than a century, paleontologists believed that fossilization erased all traces of organic molecules from dinosaur ...