This year’s Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for the discovery of ...

Tending a garden is hard work. Imagine it from the plants' perspective. Each relies on fine-tuned genetic processes to pass ...

U.S.-based scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun won the Nobel Prize for medicine and physiology on Monday for discovering ...

US scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun have won this year's Nobel Prize in Medicine for the discovery of microRNA, a new ...

Researchers have uncovered fascinating differences in how men and women metabolize food, especially after periods of fasting.

A protein that is involved in determining which enzymes cut or unwind DNA during the replication process has been identified in a new study.

US scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun have won this year's Nobel Prize in Medicine for the discovery of microRNA, a new ...

Researchers from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory studied Arabidopsis thaliana to understand how plants maintain chromosome stability when the critical molecule DDM1 is absent. They discovered that ...

In plants, centromeres control chromosome partitioning with the help of a molecule called DDM1." Martienssen discovered DDM1 in 1993 with a team that included Tetsuji Kakutani, then a postdoc with ...

Two American scientists were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology on Monday for their groundbreaking ...

MicroRNA molecules are crucial in determining how cells that have the same chromosomes have different ... "This year's Nobel Prize focuses on the discovery of a vital regulatory mechanism used ...