Biology has always been an unruly science. Cells divide when they want to. Genes switch on and off like temperamental lights.

The animal kingdom is full of fascinating tricks for enduring sub-freezing temperatures. Birds, for example, often just take ...

Long before winter seals the forest under ice, certain frogs begin preparing for a transformation that defies basic biology.

An international group of researchers led by Pompeu Fabra University has discovered the nanomachine that controls ...

Scientists have transformed enigmatic cell structures, called vaults, into storage units for messenger-RNA molecules made in ...

Researchers at Colorado State University have determined how to use artificial intelligence to modify antibodies so they act ...

The discovery that tissues use electricity to expel unhealthy cells is part of a surge of renewed interest in the currents ...

New scientific methods could one day render animal studies—the standard in research laboratories for more than 100 ...

Scientists have uncovered a new way embryonic cells divide when conventional mechanisms fail. Cell division underpins all ...

A giant functional atlas of immune cells in a Chinese cohort reveals crucial differences with European and Japanese data sets ...

The constant, energy-driven motion inside living cells may generate electricity in a way no one fully recognized before.

A large genetic screen has revealed how stem cells transform into brain cells, exposing hundreds of genes that make this ...