Scientists have been engineering “mirror life” by changing the chirality of life’s building blocks. Now, it's time to set ...

Researchers at the University of Waterloo in Ontario say they’ve made a breakthrough in introducing a new trait into bacteria ...

While many questions remain, scientists who investigate these signals from both ice sheets and marine life say the findings underscore the delicate balance of the polar environment. Observations from ...

“Mirror bacteria” could evade people’s immune systems, they suggest, causing deadly infections. Such infections could also lead to a substantial proportion of plant and animal species being displaced, ...

Chiral molecules that are mirror images of each other are called enantiomers ... Their right-handed enantiomers are absent. Similarly, the DNA in all our bodies is right-handed (the double ...

Liver cells attempt to shut down as a defense mechanism against cancer, but this strategy is not particularly effective.

Kidney and nerve tissue cells can form memories much like brain cells, one new study has found. Another recent study says ...

That's according to a new analysis, described in the journal Science Advances, that looked at DNA from one of these secretive critters ... but could not see very clear images. Then the mole lost ...

Lawyers for a New Jersey man charged with the brutal murders of four of his relatives are challenging the use of an increasingly common tool that has transformed DNA analysis in dozens of labs ...