The mystery, which has evaded scientists for more than five decades, can be explained with rather simple chemistry, according to a study published Wednesday in Nature. In lab experiments, scientists ...

For decades, the central dogma of molecular biology—DNA makes RNA, RNA makes protein, protein makes phenotype—was the guiding framework for understanding inheritance and disease. This model ...

There are almost no rules when it comes to publishing the blueprints needed to make or alter a virus with the tools of synthetic biology.