For decades, we’ve believed the bright redness of sunburn — along with its irritating sting and peeling skin — was the result ...

Japanese scientists detected all five nucleobases — building blocks of DNA and RNA — in samples returned from asteroid Bennu ...

DNA-nanoparticle motors are exactly as they sound: tiny artificial motors that use the structures of DNA and RNA to propel ...

Researchers have optimized DNA-nanoparticle motors to achieve speeds of 30 nm/s, matching natural motor proteins. By ...

Most people associate sunburns with DNA damage -- it's what we've been taught in textbooks and by dermatologists for years.

A groundbreaking study led by researchers from the University of Copenhagen and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in ...

Study reveals UV radiation damages RNA, not DNA, triggering skin inflammation and cell death through ribotoxic stress response.

Northwestern Medicine investigators have discovered a novel mechanism that recognizes and eliminates "bad" transcriptional ...