From the tiniest cell motor to the grand sweep of Earth's carbon cycle, photosynthesis and cellular respiration form the ...

In “Why Do We Exist?” Hakeem Oluseyi explores how life may emerge to move energy through matter—and why Earth is the perfect ...

Researchers have developed a microscale organic-inorganic hybridization strategy integrating biosafety, physiological ...

Who knew our bodies could be so weird?

A case report today in Pediatrics describes a previously healthy 17-year-old girl with significant encephalopathy later ...

DNA does not float freely in the cell. Instead, it is wrapped around histone proteins to form structures called nucleosomes.

Cells constantly probe their environments, searching for physical cues that guide their behavior. And yet a cell's response ...

Before seedlings can photosynthesize, they depend on fatty acids—and on peroxisomes to process them. Researchers discovered ...

Key PointsEarly Earth's atmosphere contained carbon dioxide, methane, nitrogen and water vapor, but it was virtually devoid of free oxygen.The ...

A new preclinical study from Weill Cornell Medicine found that the protein caspase-5 (CASP5), long thought to be a foot ...

Background Sympathetic signalling plays a critical role in the initiation and progression of various malignancies. However, ...

When you see a shirtless guy (and let’s be honest, it’s usually a guy) hacking through a frozen tub with a hatchet to start ...