Manu Prakash works on the world’s most urgent problems and seemingly frivolous questions at the same time. They add up to a ...

A decade-long study suggests prehistoric creatures could help complete the ‘jigsaw’ of cancer’s molecular building blocks ...

A traditional light microscope, like one you might find in a high school biology class ... My colleagues tell me that since my detention, the work with NoRI has ground to a halt.

Imagine drawing on something as delicate as a living cell—without damaging it. Researchers at the University of Missouri have ...

My search for answers to these stupendously ambitious questions led me, it now seems inexorably, to mitochondria. This idea ...

They turn the food we eat into the energy our cells can use. But when stress hijacks the process they use to maintain their ...

Each octopus arm has its own dense network of neurons, up to 350 million across all eight arms, that can work without the ...

Lytal, an instructional assistant professor of biology, crafted an online learning experience for BISC 103: An Inquiry Into ...

Rather than being like battery chargers, mitochondria are more like the motherboard of the cell.

The test is unique. Not only does it extract DNA from the shaft of a mammal’s hair—previously thought to be impossible—but it ...

Mono Lake, tucked in the Eastern Sierra, is no ordinary lake. Its eerie tufa towers and teeming swarms of brine shrimp and ...

Entamoeba histolytica infects nearly 50 million people each year and kills around 70,000. It’s a shape-shifting parasite that ...