Lincoln's S. Kathleen Lyons is providing a new framework—Earth system engineering—for examining how organisms, including humans, have fundamentally altered ecosystems on a global scale across hundreds ...

Comparing a map of the neurons in a nematode worm - the connectome - with a map of how signals travel across those neurons ...

An international team of scientists, led by the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s S. Kathleen Lyons, is providing a new framework — Earth system engineering — for examining how organisms, especially ...

Cells are crowded with proteins and nucleic acids. A new study measures subcellular densities across organisms to uncover how ...

Turning genes on and off is like flipping a light switch, controlling whether genes in a cell are active. When a gene is ...

Research led by a physicist at the University of California, Riverside, shows how viruses form protective shells, or capsids, around their genomes — a process that, while messy and complex, ...

Rose petals' unique shapes come from stress during growth. Differential growth and mechanical stresses create curled edges.

Honeysuckle nanovesicles reduced gut inflammation and restored microbial and immune balance in colitis models, suggesting a microbiota-based therapy.

A gene-editing tool that can turn genes on and off like a light switch has been developed. Turning a gene on means activating ...

Rabbi Dov Ber of Mezritch (circa 1700–1772), the Maggid of Mezritch, once shared a Torah teaching beginning with V’shavta ad ...

A new Fred Hutch study surprisingly finds that many drugs initially written off as ineffective on cultured cancer cell lines ...