An international research collaboration has shed new light on the molecular basis of gene expression, the fundamental biological process that underpins how all organisms use their genetic information.

Since the first fiber optic cables rolled out in the 1970s, they've become a major part of everything from medical devices to high-speed internet and cable TV. But as it turns out, one group of marine ...

Newly discovered insect fossils are so small they can barely be seen by the human eye but have been preserved in an ...

Modern day drug discovery is shifting from single end point assays to more complex phenotypic assays that query single cell ...

Modern day drug discovery is shifting from single end point assays to more complex phenotypic assays that query single cell ...

Microscopes traditionally resolve only the thin layer of cellular activity within a narrow focal plane. Now scientists have ...

A new study challenges the long-held belief that axons, brain cell extensions, are tube-like, revealing instead a "pearl-on-a ...

A provocative study is claiming that biology textbooks are going to need some major revisions – although not everyone is ...

The College of Veterinary Medicine at Kansas State University held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Oct. 30 for the new Biomedical ...

The discovery that other vertebrates have healthy, microbial brains is fueling the still controversial possibility that we ...

Biology textbooks may need a revision, say Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists, who present new evidence that an armlike ...