A group of ocean bacteria long considered perfectly adapted to life in nutrient-poor waters may be more vulnerable to ...

When you picture a single cell, you probably imagine something super tiny that you had to look at through a microscope. But, ...

A series of scientific findings suggest that life is more resilient, more patient, and more inventive than previously thought ...

As we age, our cells don’t just wear down—they reorganize. Researchers found that cells actively remodel a key structure called the endoplasmic reticulum, reducing protein-producing regions while ...

Viruses attack nearly every living organism on Earth. To do so, they rely on highly specialized proteins that recognize and ...

Advances in public health and medicine have helped people live longer than ever before. However, those extra years are often affected by poor health ...

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

Research into hibernating animals reveals that memory lives in the cell and life is defined by the persistence of embodied ...

Researchers showed that in C. elegans, the protein MBD-2 regulates genes through repressive histone marks rather than DNA ...

Researchers at the School of Biological Sciences of The University of Hong Kong (HKU) have uncovered how eukaryotic cells can ...

Scientists in Japan have discovered a previously unknown giant virus, offering new insight into this enigmatic category of ...

A bizarre fossil called Prototaxites, which was the largest life-form on land 400 million years ago, may have been a ...