A remarkably small bacterium containing fewer than 500 genes serves as the basis for one of the most detailed digital life reconstructions ever created. Using computer technology, scientists have ...

Mammalian oocytes utilize a conserved combination of cell cycle control, cytoskeletal organization, and polarity pathways that are fundamentally shared with other vertebrates and invertebrates.

Scientists have uncovered a surprising new way that giant embryonic cells divide—without relying on the classic “purse-string” ring long thought essential for splitting a cell in two. Studying ...

Study reveals how two proteins cooperate in a key early step of antiviral detection, as reported by researchers at Science ...

A study reveals how two proteins cooperate in a key early step of antiviral detection, as reported by researchers at Science ...

It’s a familiar image, reprinted in countless biology textbooks: an illustration of a typical cell, halved like a grapefruit to reveal its innards. Strands of endoplasmic reticulum encircle a nucleus ...

Gene therapy holds the promise of preventing and curing disease by manipulating gene expression within a patient's cells. However, to be effective, the new gene must make it into a cell’s nucleus. The ...

A version of this article first appeared in CNBC's Healthy Returns newsletter, which brings the latest health-care news straight to your inbox. Subscribe here to receive future editions. After the ...

The Nike Structure Plus is built to be the softest, springiest stability shoe Nike has ever made, and uses the brand’s ZoomX foam for the first time in a stability shoe. It does achieve its goals in ...

Shareholders were extremely pleased by the biotech's latest news from the lab. This concerned its pipeline weight-loss drug aleniglipron. Structure, which concentrates on metabolic diseases with a ...

Ancient viral fossils buried in our DNA are offering fresh clues about how today’s respiratory pathogens infect and spread. By tracing the shared architecture between long-extinct retroviruses and ...