Learn how mapping gene-control switches in an ancient sea anemone reveals how identical DNA can produce many different cell ...

An ancient viral infection may have given animals the tools to become fast, coordinated and smart, a study has found. According to a paper published Thursday in Cell, complex nervous systems arose in ...

(Nanowerk News) Researchers from more than 50 international institutions have launched Open Problems a collaborative open-source platform to benchmark, improve, and run competitions for computational ...

The fundamental nature of living things challenges assumptions that physicists have held for centuries.

Researchers discovered that a long-misunderstood protein plays a key role in helping chromosomes latch onto the right “tracks ...

No one has yet created a fully functioning artificial cell. But a research team at Aarhus University has taken a step in that ...

Researchers at Stockholm University have uncovered surprising insights into a large, previously unstudied group of bacteria, ...

Researchers used Listeria's movement as a model to build nanomotors inside artificial cells, giving them lifelike mobility ...