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Researchers have synthesized staircase-like supramolecules of a single handedness, or chirality, using standard laboratory equipment.

An international team of researchers has taken a comprehensive look at the genomes of all seven species of watermelon, creating a resource that could help plant breeders increase the domestic fruit's quality and ability to thrive during an era of climate change.

Researchers have launched a new open-source database, aiming to make it easier to share datasets that reveal the function of genomic variants in health and disease.

A crowdsourcing game called Foldit allows players to try different fold configurations for points and rankings. In a recent challenge, Foldit players came up with 56 designs that were reproduced as stable structures in a lab.

Scientists have found that specialized lymphatic capillaries are involved in the synchronization of hair follicle regeneration.

Scientists are developing a low cost, rapid diagnostic sensor test which aims to show the susceptibility of bacteria to antibiotics within 45 minutes.

Scientists have developed a high-resolution visual map of the RSC complex, a multi-protein machine, elucidating how it works and what role it has in healthy and cancer cells.

A new study provides a first step toward the development of an inexpensive point-of-care diagnostic test to assess the presence of known risk factors for preterm birth in resource-poor areas.

People who have a certain type of bacteria in their guts may be at greater risk of developing bowel cancer.

Breast cancer could be detected up to five years before there are any clinical signs of it, using a blood test that identifies the body’s immune response to substances produced by tumor cells, according to new research presented at the 2019 NCRI Cancer Conference Sunday.