Innovations in imaging and genetic engineering are coming together to probe the biophysics of cytoplasm inside living animals.

For more than a century, biology textbooks have stated that vision among vertebrates - people included - is built from two ...

George Pólya’s random walk theorem absolved him of being a lurker and revealed how the laws of chance interact with physical ...

Most bacteria, including many bacterial pathogens, are surrounded by an outer protective layer of sugar molecules, known as a ...

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The neuron’s inner scaffold, once viewed as static support, now looks like a gatekeeper. Research findings are available ...

Living organisms share an ancestor called the last universal common ancestor, or LUCA. LUCA is estimated to have lived ...

Scientists call this speck LUCA — the Last Universal Common Ancestor. Since the concept of LUCA first emerged, it has ...

Australian research could be key to combating the rising threat of antibiotic resistance and saving millions of lives.

Cancer is one of the leading causes of death worldwide, marked by the uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells. What makes it ...

Ancient duplicated genes are giving scientists their first real clues about what life was like before all life on Earth ...

Researchers discovered a bacterial protein that detects phage infection and forms membrane pores to kill the host cell before ...