Inside every living cell, proteins and membranes are in constant motion, reshaping, colliding, and flexing as they keep an ...

For the first time, scientists have answered a longstanding question in cell biology about a partnership of proteins called ...

A giant functional atlas of immune cells in a Chinese cohort reveals crucial differences with European and Japanese data sets ...

Randomness inside cells can decide whether a cancer returns after chemotherapy or whether an infection survives antibiotics.

It may have fewer than many of the other sciences, but biology does have two dozen or so “rules”—broad generalizations about ...

Every person who has ever been pregnant leaves a biological trace that is far more intimate than a family photo album. During ...

Scientists decoded basic molecular processes in metabolism, investigated premenstrual chocolate cravings, and figured out how ...

From the generation of embryo-like structures to the establishment of cell-based approaches to model or treat disease, the field of stem cell and developmental biology has impressively progressed ...

In the battle against type 1 diabetes (T1D), one researcher at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) is leading a ...

Researchers from Kyushu University have developed an innovative computational method, called ddHodge, that can reconstruct ...

Biology has always been an unruly science. Cells divide when they want to. Genes switch on and off like temperamental lights.

“Expression tells us what cells do, but regulatory DNA tells us where they come from, how they develop, and which germ layer ...