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

The world of biology and science never ceases to amaze us. This has been demonstrated by what a group of scientists has ...

If nonliving materials can produce rich, organized mixtures of organic molecules, then the traditional signs we use to ...

Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...

Biologists mapping the human microbiome expected to find new bacteria and viruses, not entities that slip through every ...

Red blood is the exception, not the rule. Evolution has painted it green, purple and white in animals that push physiology ...

Veronika Koren talks about pursuing a theory of neural coding that doesn’t fit a simple narrative, and the resilience it took to see it through.

How did life begin on Earth? While scientists have theories, they don't yet fully understand the precise chemical steps that ...

Biologists mapping the human body have long assumed that every major kind of microscopic life inside us already had a place ...

While late M-stars are the easiest places to find Earth-sized planets, a new study suggests they are biological dead ends where animal life may never find enough fuel to evolve.

Why does cancer sometimes recur after chemotherapy? Why do some bacteria survive antibiotic treatment? In many cases, the ...

The FDA approval of denileukin diftitox (Lymphir) marked a significant shift in this paradigm. As a first-in-class immunotoxin, it employs a dual-action mechanism: directly targeting interleukin-2 (IL ...