For decades, scientists have known that bacteria can exchange genetic material, in a process called horizontal gene transfer.

They derive their energy from differences in the concentration of hydrogen ions across some of these membranes ...

It is in complex animals that organs come into their own as a plethora of sophisticated, functional entities. How large that ...

The amount of any given protein in a cell has to be controlled to keep its levels within a range required for healthy ...

Cambridge neuroscientist Dr Peter Coppola claims that human consciousness arises from a primal region of our brains, known as the 'lizard brain, which we share with many animals.