A massive study of ancient DNA from nearly 16,000 people across more than 10,000 years in West Eurasia reveals that natural ...

The Ecological Society of America is pleased to announce is 2026 Fellows. ESA's fellowship program recognizes the many ways ...

The bacterial flagellar motor is finally understood after 50 years. In its workings, columnist Natalie Wolchover finds the ...

Cells are enveloped by a lipid membrane that gives them structure and provides a barrier between the cell and its environment. However, evidence has recently emerged suggesting that these membranes do ...

Growth-coupled biosynthesis in microbes can stabilise production yields, yet their population-level effects are unclear. Here the authors use ScRNA-seq to reveal that an evolved glycyrrhetinic ...

The dorsal raphe nucleus (DRN) serotonergic (5-HT) system has been implicated in regulating sleep and motor control; however, its specific role remains controversial. In this study, we found that ...

Details of the requirements for each degree are available through the University Bulletin. Core biology courses are taken by students pursuing either the BA or the BS. BIOL 14, 15 and 16 can be taken ...

This study provides an important and biologically plausible account of how human perceptual judgments of heading direction are influenced by a specific pattern of motion in optic flow fields known as ...

Chemical biology is the study of the chemicals and chemical reactions involved in biological processes, incorporating the disciplines of bioorganic chemistry, biochemistry, cell biology and ...

MIT postdoctoral associate Arunav Kumar discusses his work on magnetohydrodynamic stability, plasma control in tokamaks, and ...