Interactions among viruses can help them succeed inside their hosts or impart vulnerabilities that make them easier to treat.

Scientists are exploring a mysterious third state between life and death. Cell clusters from dead organisms are showing new ...

Syntax Bio, a synthetic biology company programming the next generation of cell therapies, today announced the publication of ...

Scientists have discovered that complex life began evolving much earlier than traditional models suggested. Using an expanded ...

Under a microscope, the newly described organism Solarion looks less like a cell and more like a tiny star, its body ringed ...

It was thought that complex cells couldn’t survive above a certain temperature, but a tiny amoeba has proven that assumption ...

Patients who underwent hematopoietic cell transplantation for sickle cell disease saw high rates of survival without disease symptoms and low rates of severe side effects or complications years after ...

Researchers found that DNA's shape matters. When its loops break, cancer can start.Based on a new concept of architectural tumor ...

For decades, nutrition advice focused on what we eat: macronutrients, superfoods, calorie counts, and dietary patterns. But a growing body of ...

For decades, biology textbooks have taught that human hair grows because new cells in the hair root divide and push older ...

UC Santa Barbara Physicist Boris Shraiman has led an intellectually peripatetic career, to great satisfaction, success and acclaim.

Scientists uncovered a surprising four-layer structure hidden inside the hippocampal CA1 region, one of the brain’s major centers for memory, navigation, and emotion. Using advanced RNA imaging ...