The story of life’s beginnings gets stranger when you look closely at viruses. These tiny entities seem to sit at the edge of biology.

Centromeres play virtually the same central role across the entire tree of life: They ensure the faithful segregation of chromosomes during cell division. Yet the striking diversity in centromere ...

Researchers have created a method called optovolution that uses light to guide the evolution of proteins with dynamic ...

In a study published in Developmental Cell, a team led by Prof. Robert K. Naumann from the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and researchers from BGI ...

One of the biggest quests in biology is understanding how every cell in an animal’s body carries an identical genome yet still gives rise to a kaleidoscope of different cell types and tissues. A ...

Researchers from the Earlham Institute, in collaboration with The Department of Biology at the University of Oxford, ...

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Disease research has always been about understanding tiny pieces of life. Scientists study how cells behave when sickness strikes the body. Every illness tells a story at the microscopic level.