A growing body of work suggests that cell metabolism — the chemical reactions that provide energy and building materials — ...

In 2015, researchers examining deep-sea sediments near the underwater volcano Loki discovered gene fragments indicating a new ...

Scientists reveal the role of hidden microbes called Asgard archaea in the origins of complex life, challenging long-held ...

A new part of an ocean plant cell has been discovered that might revolutionize farming one day. The structure can take ...

Just as cities must carefully manage the flow of cars in and out of downtown, cells regulate the movement of molecules into ...

Researchers from Northwestern University have stumbled upon a previously unobserved function of a protein found in the cell ...

One of the key challenges of the modern genomics era is studying the thousands of genes in a single human cell at scale. To ...

Organelles in cells were originally often independent cells, which were incorporated by host cells and lost their ...

To uncover what drives sexual behavior in animals, researchers studied the brain activity of male mice throughout the series ...

Ten years ago, nobody knew that Asgard archaea even existed. In 2015, however, researchers examining deep-sea sediments discovered gene fragments that indicated a new and previously undiscovered form ...

The songbird vocal motor nucleus HVC contains cells that project to the basal ganglia, the auditory system, or downstream vocal motor structures. In this fundamental study, the authors conduct ...

Circadian rhythms are endogenous time-keeping mechanisms that regulate physiological processes in response to external light-dark cycles. These ...