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Seeing plastic trash while hiking inspired a Rutgers chemist to rethink why synthetic plastics last forever while natural ...

For decades, biology textbooks taught that DNA’s story could be told with a single image: two elegant strands twisting in a ...

If nonliving materials can produce rich, organized mixtures of organic molecules, then the traditional signs we use to ...

With a storage capacity of 36 petabytes, a DNA-based cassette tape can hold every song every recorded, and it could be on the ...

A giant impact on the early Earth could have brought the building blocks of RNA to our planet, which new research suggests ...

A sweeping genetic screen reveals how the brain is built and exposes a hidden gene behind a newly discovered childhood brain ...

Two related discoveries detailing nanocrystalline mineral formation and dynamics have broad implications for managing nuclear ...

Zebrafish (Danio Rerio) have emerged as a powerful bioengineering platform for next-generation drug discovery, offering an unparalleled combination of ...

Accutane, known generically as isotretinoin, is not simply a strong acne medication. It is a systemic retinoid that ...