In the vast and often unseen world of microscopic life, a recent discovery may force scientists to rethink what it means to ...

Indian astronaut Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla is visiting a home away from Earth that has seen continuous human presence for a quarter of a century and is floating around 400 kilometres above Earth ...

Emily Dombrowski ’23 earned dual degrees in marine biology and French from the College of Charleston, where she discovered ...

Worms offer a simple yet powerful whole-organism model for studying senescence, mirroring mammalian aging processes and ...

If you’re one of the folks who looks forward to pumpkins every fall, the long summer wait can be tough. For farmers, the ...

Today, these microbial partners work in the soil across millions of acres of farmland worldwide, helping farmers grow more ...

Genome editing technologies like CRISPR-Cas9 have transformed biology, medicine, and agriculture, but concerns remain about ...

This newly found organism doesn’t act like a virus or a cell, and that could change everything we know about biology.

Senescent cells, which are damaged and inflammatory, contribute significantly to aging. Researchers at the Max Planck ...

A new study unexpectedly reveals that cells thrive on chaos. It may have fewer than many of the other sciences, but biology does have two dozen or so “rules”—broad generalizations about the behavior ...