Discover how new developments in cryo-electron microscopy are set to transform biological imaging by supporting more targeted ...

A mysterious 420-million-year-old ancient life form challenges evolution, defying classification as plant, animal or fungus.

Deep in the Atlantic Ocean, far from any coastline and out of reach of sunlight, scientists have mapped a sprawling undersea ...

Stacker puts together a list of facts you learned in school that are no longer true.

Proteins are the molecular machines of cells. They are produced in protein factories called ribosomes based on their ...

How physically magnifying objects using a key ingredient in diapers has opened an unprecedented view of the microbial world.

Researchers at University of Tsukuba have identified a photophobic response (light avoidance) in the unicellular apusomonad ...

DNA's iconic double helix does more than "just" store genetic information. Under certain conditions it can temporarily fold into unusual shapes. Researchers at Umeå University, Sweden, have now shown ...

In its effort to correlate genomic structure with gene function, the 4D Nucleome Consortium (4DN), led by Job Dekker, Ph.D., at UMass Chan Medical School, has extensively mapped and analyzed the three ...

UCSF scientists discover that the spindle, the structure that divides chromosomes equally during mitosis, actually gets stronger when it is stretched.

The navigation of stem cells and progenitors to sites of tissue growth, the long-range extension of neuronal projections, and the large-scale movement of cells up or down external gradients all ...

An ancient and enormous organism called Prototaxites, initially found to be a type of fungus, may actually be an unknown branch of life, researchers say.