Just as life pulsates in big vibrant cities, it also prospers in crowded environments inside cells. The interior of cells is ...

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

In their quest for safe, mass-producible artificial blood, geneticists have long struggled. Our limited knowledge of genetic ...

Every time a eukaryotic cell divides, it faces a monumental challenge: It must carefully duplicate and divide its genetic ...

Before a chain of amino acids can become an active and useful protein, it must be processed and folded into the appropriate ...

There was a time when an efficient, multidimensional passing game was the nucleus of the Falcons’ identity. It wasn’t ...

Before a chain of amino acids can become an active and useful protein, it must be processed and folded into the appropriate ...

They derive their energy from differences in the concentration of hydrogen ions across some of these membranes ...

Some human organs, such as kidneys and lungs, have back-ups. Some can be lost with little consequence—the spleen, for example ...