The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.

If we asked you to think of a device that converts a chemical reaction into electricity, you’d probably say we were thinking of a battery. That’s true, but there is another device that does this that ...

The cells of all animals—including humans—are characterized by their ability to adhere particularly well to surfaces in their ...

Two years after this, Sakaguchi was able to link these discoveries. He proved that the Foxp3 gene governs the development of ...

Genomes can now be used to store information about a variety of transient biological events inside of living cells, as they happen, like a flight recorder collecting data from an aircraft. The method, ...

A new method called Zman-seq, reveals the history of cells and may advance the development of new therapies for cancer and other disorders. Researchers from Ido Amit’s lab at the Weizmann Institute of ...

T cells are vital for surveillance within the immune system. They are activated once the T cell receptor (TCR) binds its cognate peptide found in cell surface proteins encoded by the major ...

A parasite that causes malaria is halted by sickle cells and makes people who carry the sickle cell trait more resistant to the disease. This is why sickle cell trait also occurs more in people who ...

Descendants of Henrietta Lacks, the Black woman whose cells have been central to decades of important scientific breakthroughs, settled litigation with a biotech company that had allegedly profited ...