From plants and bacteria to animals and humans, our world is filled with many living things. In fact, there are approximately 8.7 million species of plants and animals in existence, and only 1.2 ...

Rhodes scholar, renowned oncologist, contributor to The New Yorker and The New York Times. Author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning “The Emperor of All Maladies” and bestselling “The Gene.” Just 52, ...

Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee still remembers the first cell he cultured: It was an immune cell from a mouse, and he had grown it in a petri dish. As he examined it through a microscope, the cell moved, ...

In his latest book, the oncologist and acclaimed writer Siddhartha Mukherjee focuses his narrative microscope on the cell, the elementary building block from which complex systems and life itself ...

The problem of cell type became clear to genome biologist Jason Buenrostro in 2013. He was studying a cell line derived from someone with cancer, trying to map out how the DNA was arranged in the ...

An image of human colon cancer cells, with the nuclei stained red. Siddhartha Mukherjee, who wrote about cancer in his first book, now explores the history and implications of cell science. (National ...

New research gives insight into when the ancestor of all living things lived, and it's earlier than we thought. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...