How much does life weigh? It sounds like a strange question, but to biologists it makes all the sense in the world. Yeast ...
Scientists at Nagoya University in Japan have identified the genes that allow an organism to switch between living as single ...
Life begins with a single fertilized cell that gradually transforms into a multicellular organism. This process requires ...
Scientists at Nagoya University in Japan have identified the genes that allow an organism to switch between living as single ...
Why does cancer sometimes recur after chemotherapy? Why do some bacteria survive antibiotic treatment? In many cases, the ...
In many submerged regions, murky mud shelters strange life-forms that seem to be the key to one of the biggest mysteries of life on Earth. These creatures belong to a domain of life called the archaea ...
Biology has always been an unruly science. Cells divide when they want to. Genes switch on and off like temperamental lights.