Prenatal genetic testing determines if an offspring is at risk of genetic or hereditary conditions. This can inform the parents of decisions such as keeping the child or not or adjusting to help them ...

Jennifer A. Doudna, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2020, is the winner of the first Kimberly Prize in Biochemistry, administered by Northwestern University. Photo: picture alliance / ...

Peptide nucleic acids (PNAs) are synthetic analogues of DNA in which the sugar–phosphate backbone is replaced by a neutral peptide-like scaffold. This modification endows PNAs with exceptional ...

A new study from Karolinska Institutet, published in Cell Reports Medicine, shows that follicular lymphoma (FL), a common type of blood cancer, is not one single disease but consists of three ...

Biochemistry is a field of study where biology and chemistry overlap. Biochemists study living things in the same way biologists would, but their attention is focused on the molecular level. The ...