Water bears survive cosmic radiation with one DNA-protecting protein, Dsup. Learning how could help protect humans against ...

James Watson pioneered molecular biology through his co-discovery of DNA’s double helix structure, but his prejudiced views turned him into an outcast.

Motor neurons are some of the largest cells in the human body. In particular, upper neurons—extending from the cerebral cortex to the brain stem or spinal cord—average 60μm in diameter. 3,4 These ...

Flies carrying disease-causing microbes will likely contaminate the food they touch, but different factors determine whether ...

Scientists leveraged plants’ built-in regeneration capacity to grow modified plants in weeks instead of months, offering a ...

Olga Anczukow and Ryan Englander discuss how transcriptome splicing affects immune system function in lung cancer.

With the shrinking federal funding landscape, academics look to embrace industry collaborations. How does one build impactful ...

Legal and ethical guidelines have struggled to keep up with the pace of neural organoid research. Concerned neuroscientists ...

Transplanting human gastric organoids engineered to release insulin in diabetic mice reduced hyperglycemia, offering a ...

Tatsuya Nobori brings high-resolution multiomic approaches to plant biology to map how plants interact with microbes on a ...

Noise as loud as 85 to 100 decibels over time led to irreversible motor defects and loss of dopamine neurons in a mouse model ...

Researchers discovered how human astroviruses bind to a receptor on human cells at a molecular level, which could inform new ...