New research reveals how a class of neurons that help coordinate communication in the brain link up with their target cells, ...

A generative AI system can now analyze blood cells with greater accuracy and confidence than human experts, detecting subtle signs of diseases like leukemia. It not only spots rare abnormalities but ...

The nearly 30-year tale of secalosides A and B began in 1997, when natural product chemists identified them as components of ...

Scientists have uncovered a new explanation for how swimming bacteria change direction, providing fresh insight into one of ...

One of the most well-studied cellular responses is how they react during times of stress, such as when the temperature gets ...

Scientists mapping the human body at the cellular level keep running into the same surprise: beneath the apparent chaos of tissues and organs, there is a hidden order that looks a lot like pure ...

Scientists at Nagoya University in Japan have identified the genes that allow an organism to switch between living as single ...

A new kind of microscope is giving scientists a way to watch life inside cells with a clarity that feels almost unfair.

Encouraged by these results, Dudin, Dey, Guichard, and Hamel launched a close collaboration. Three years later, their work has produced near-encyclopedic insight into hundreds of protist species and ...

Hidden inside every organ, microscopic fibers form a scaffolding that quietly shapes how we move, think, and heal. For the ...

In many submerged regions, murky mud shelters strange life-forms that seem to be the key to one of the biggest mysteries of life on Earth. These creatures belong to a domain of life called the archaea ...

“The laws of inheritance are quite unknown,” Charles Darwin acknowledged in 1859. The discovery of DNA’s shape altered how we conceived of life itself. The X-ray crystallography by Rosalind Franklin ...