Our incoming mayor is a proud graduate of the Bronx High School of Science and therefore knows a worthy science project when he sees one — especially one that was made in New York, employs New Yorkers ...

Labs around the world are trying to turn cells into autobiographers, tracking their own development from embryos to adults. By Carl Zimmer Shortly after conception, a fertilized egg divides, becoming ...

The human cell is a miserable thing to study. Tens of trillions of them exist in the body, forming an enormous and intricate network that governs every disease and metabolic process. Each cell in that ...