Glaciers are flush with microbial life. But, as climate change speeds glacial melting, scientists rush to establish microbial ...

First and foremost, we breathe in order to absorb oxygen—but this vital rhythm could also have other functions. Over the past ...

Syntax Bio, a synthetic biology company programming the next generation of cell therapies, has published new research in ...

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

Detectives often find important clues by digging through rubbish. That approach paid off tremendously for systems biologist Yifat Merbl. When she and her team investigated cellular recycling centres ...

To the research team working to save him, KJ Muldoon was first known only as Patient Eta. But within months, KJ’s name — and ...

When cells proliferate, genomic DNA is precisely duplicated once per cell cycle. Abnormalities in this DNA replication process can cause alterations in genomic DNA, promoting cellular ageing, cancer, ...

An archaeon reads the same codon in two different ways, overturning a doctrine that has stood for 60 years. Living organisms ...