Open the Youtube video Biology has always been an unruly science. Cells divide when they want to. Genes switch on and off ...

Scientists have transformed enigmatic cell structures, called vaults, into storage units for messenger-RNA molecules made in ...

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

There are hundreds of cell types in the human body, each with a specific role spelled out in their DNA. In theory, all it ...

J ohn Moult remembers the time he was floored by an algorithm. Moult, one of the organizers of the Critical Assessment of Protein Structure Prediction (CASP) competitions and a computational biologist ...

Think back to that basic biology class you took in high school. You probably learned about organelles, those little “organs” inside cells that form compartments with individual functions. For example, ...

The constant, energy-driven motion inside living cells may generate electricity in a way no one fully recognized before.

Spatial proteomics is the study of the spatial distribution of the proteins within cells and tissues. The subcellular localization of proteins is intrinsic to cellular function, making spatial ...

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

When tissue is severely damaged, surviving cells can respond in a concentrated burst of biological repair known as ...

Researchers discovered that a long-misunderstood protein plays a key role in helping chromosomes latch onto the right “tracks” during cell division. Instead of acting like a motor, it works more like ...