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

In cellular automata, simple rules create elaborate structures. Now researchers can start with the structures and reverse-engineer the rules.

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% ...

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 ...

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

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