Cyanobacteria—ancient microbes that oxygenated Earth and made complex life possible—are still revealing surprises billions of ...

What physical processes govern the movement of microscopic structures capable of interacting with their environment? The ...

Forever chemicals may be entering living cells as bacteria weave PFAS into their membranes, revealing a hidden pollution ...

Life moves in mysterious ways—and perhaps especially so for organisms that undergo dramatic shifts in levels of ...

When oil is dropped in water, the oil droplets stay separate. Cells can also use a system like this to separate or gather ...

A Franco-British team of scientists has explored two human proteins recently identified as immune enzymes. Structural studies in vitro show that, in a cell infected by a virus for example, these ...

A quiet but powerful process begins the moment food touches your mouth. Long before your immune system reacts, bacteria in your saliva and gut may already be shaping what happens next.

This important study advances a new computational approach to measure and visualize gene expression specificity across different tissues and cell types. The framework is potentially helpful for ...

Mars was long considered an inhospitable planet characterized by extremely cold temperatures and constant bombardment by ...

Conservation levels of gene expression abundance ratios are globally coordinated in cells, and cellular state changes under such biologically relevant stoichiometric constraints are readable as ...

Scientists have developed a fuel cell that uses microbes in soil to produce electricity. The device can power underground ...

Understanding these mechanisms potentially opens the way to the creation of smart medicines. However, experts point out that ...