The Earth BioGenome Project seeks to genetically profile over a million plants, animals, and fungi as they build an atlas of ...

A new resource by Rappe et al (2024) now provides a spatiotemporal landscape of mitophagy changes during mouse brain aging at ...

The "boring billion" shaped multicellularity, with energy demands sparking complexity. This era shows evolution's cost.

Yizhi “Patrick” Cai is coordinating a global effort to write a complete synthetic yeast genome. If he succeeds, the resulting cell will be the artificial life most closely related to humans to date.

Think back to that basic biology class you took in high school. You probably learned about organelles, those little "organs" ...

Detailed map of the spliceosome is being made publicly available to help researchers pinpoint exactly where splicing errors ...

Richard F. Ludueña, Professor Emeritus at the University of Texas Health San Antonio, discusses his innovative approach to ...

Membraneless organelles, also called biomolecular condensates, are changing how scientists think about protein chemistry, ...

Billions of years ago, Earth was home to extreme environments, including intense UV radiation, frequent volcanic eruptions, ...