Researchers have reconstructed transcription in human mitochondria in unprecedented detail, revealing potential drug targets ...

Aging, neurological diseases and our bodies' stress response are all linked to the tiny power plants inside each cell known ...

For decades, scientists thought the noncoding parts of DNA were useless leftovers. Today, that view has completely changed.

The DNA of nearly all life on Earth contains many redundancies, and scientists have long wondered whether these redundancies served a purpose or if they were just leftovers from evolutionary processes ...