While this popular diet plan can be healthy if done correctly, if you eat the wrong foods you may end up increasing your risk ...

Researchers found LUCA, our earliest common ancestor, lived 4.2 billion years ago. It had a complex biology, affecting its ...

An INRS research team has identified a new family of enzymes that can make precise cuts in single-stranded DNA. A few years ...

Microplastics are tiny plastic fragments that pollute oceans, rivers and the air. They’re now being linked to a serious ...

Recent discoveries are helping scientists face this challenge in innovative ways. Studies have found that nearly a quarter of drugs that aren’t normally prescribed as antibiotics, such as medications ...

Proteins form the structural and functional backbone of the cell, and any perturbation in their synthesis can disrupt normal ...

At its core, diabetes mellitus is about your body’s relationship with insulin, the hormone responsible for helping cells ...

Recently, Professor Frédéric Veyrier at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) and his team developed a new genetic tool based on a family of specific enzymes called Ssn that allows ...

Learn about Brink Therapeutics as it raises $4 million to go beyond CRISPR with engineered recombinases in CAR T therapy.

Bacteria, which are susceptible to infection by bacteriophages, often carry multiple genes encoding anti-phage defense ...

Microbes in the Gowanus sediment have evolved methods of coping with and even subsisting off of the contamination, according ...

Background Muscle wasting and weakness (sarcopenia) are commonly associated with COPD causing frailty and reduced quality of ...