Shared pool of proteins even in functionally unrelated organelles

The findings may help reduce cancer by driving policy to lower pollution in areas with high cancer rates linked to the environment

Chemists from Italy and Canada specializing in nanotechnology create a molecular slingshot that could shoot drugs at precise locations in the human body once triggered by specific disease markers

The discovery helps round out the picture of a creature that scientists now know shared the landscape with modern humans—and probably other hominin species—between 226,000 and 335,000 years ago

Researchers at the University of Missouri have devised a new tool to detect and analyze single melanoma cells that are more representative of the skin cancers developed by most patients

A bacterial boost for bio-based fuels

In sleep-deprived mice, caffeine and other drugs to promote wakefulness ease pain better than analgesics

The new program "ModelFinder" will allow more accurate scientific estimates of evolutionary processes

Water filtration with CO2 uses 1,000 times less energy than conventional methods

Researchers used fluorescence probes to monitor increases in mRNA-ribosome interaction levels for a gene associated with iron storage in response to iron

Mapping deep reefs produces valuable data for researchers, conservationists

The team is the first to demonstrate that HIV-1 replication can be completely shut down and the virus eliminated from infected cells in animals with CRISPR/Cas9