FMI researchers have uncovered new clues about how cells decide what type of cell to become — whether muscle, neurons, or something else entirely. By ...

Arabidopsis thaliana was always an unlikely candidate for the limelight. But 25 years ago, the diminutive thale cress ...

Current demand for plastics and chemical raw materials is met through large-scale production of ethylene from fossil fuels.

Understanding how cells turn genes on and off is one of biology's most enduring mysteries. Now, a new technology developed by ...

Challenging a long-standing assumption regarding the adult brain, recent research has demonstrated that individuals can ...

Within each cell, there is a constant struggle between life-sustaining molecules and molecules that could hasten its demise.

For decades, scientists believed the essence of life was written solely in four chemical bases: A, C, T, and G. Together, ...

This may help explain how cells maintain identity while still adapting to new environments: memory nodes link genetic information to physical structure, allowing new genome ‘stories’ to be written ...

MIT researchers discovered that the genome’s 3D structure doesn’t vanish during cell division as previously thought. Instead, ...

Mayo Clinic researchers have identified a protein that acts like a traffic controller for DNA, preventing damage during cell division—a discovery that could lead to new cancer therapies, according to ...

Understanding the interaction between immune cells and cancer cells has important implications for cancer immunotherapies, including checkpoint inhibitor drugs and cell-based therapies, as well as ...

Women in their 60s and 70s could theoretically one day give birth to genetically related children, according to scientists pioneering a breakthrough technique that converts DNA from skin cells into ...