Dr. Elizabeth Colston ’87 once walked through FitzRandolph Gate with a degree in Molecular Biology and a senior thesis on cancer cell research. Now, nearly four decades later, Colston is on the ...

Chronic hepatitis D virus (HDV) coinfection in people with chronic hepatitis B is associated with rapid progression to liver cirrhosis and high mortality. In 2020, the estimated global HDV burden ...

The database of 200 million protein-structure predictions now includes homodimers, adding new biological relevance.

Scientists at Caltech have figured out how to precisely engineer tiny three-dimensional (3D) metallic pieces with nanoscale ...

Accurately measuring small shifts in biological markers, like proteins and neurotransmitters, or harmful chemicals in the water supply, can identify critical problems before they have a chance to ...

At first glance this was huge news with chemical implications: $300 billion would be an extraordinary investment for a refinery, many times more than was put into China’s giant Zhejiang Petroleum and ...

A sample collected by the Hayabusa 2 spacecraft from the spinning top-like asteroid contained the nucleobases adenine, ...

The road to deploying the next flagship supercomputer at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) reached an important ...

Can fungi influence the weather?Turns out, they just might.An international group of researchers that includes Virginia Tech's Xiaofeng Wang and Boris ...

Scientists have identified a previously unknown type of planet beyond our solar system – one capable of storing vast quantities of sulphur deep beneath a permanent ocean of molten rock. The study, led ...

Geneticist Anne Brunet explores what aging really is, how lifestyle choices might influence longevity, and the promising frontiers of aging research. Aging is a process that affects us all. But how ...

It has long been known as the arbiter of reward in the brain, but recent findings could upend this classic theory of dopamine ...