The placenta is a unique organ that exists only during pregnancy, growing at tumour-like speed to the size of a small dinner ...

If Stephen Quake gets his way, biologists in the future will spend a lot less time wielding pipettes. “Our goal,” he says, “is to create computational tools so that cell biology goes from being 90% ...

The research describes a novel and unusual mechanism for T cells to remember the pathogens and cancers that they had ...

Research labs are pursuing technology to “reprogram” aging bodies back to youth. A little over 15 years ago, scientists at Kyoto University in Japan made a remarkable discovery. When they added just ...

Joseph Gall was posthumously recognized for the societal impacts of his basic research in molecular biology, guided by his ...