Micro decisions can have macro consequences. A soft matter physicist reveals how interactions within simple cellular ...

Inspired by sea sponges, researchers created living micro-lenses from bacteria that may improve medical and industrial ...

All bacteria exist as single cells at some point in their lives – except for one kind, known as multicellular magnetotactic ...

The presence of disorder causes worms to speed up, not slow down – a surprising result with applications in robotics ...

“While we and many others have contributed to the general understanding of how the genome is folded inside chromosomes during mitosis—how cells dynamically acquire their intricate folding ...

That support for teaching and research had a public purpose—by sustaining higher education, it was helping shape a ... exploring mirror bacteria—synthetically engineered cells that possess ...

That support for teaching and research had a public purpose—by sustaining higher education, it was helping shape a better ...

Apr. 16, 2025 — Starch and oils are known as storehouses of carbon in plants. However, the way in which carbon resources are allocated during metabolism in plants remained unknown. Now, however ...

This paper addresses a long-standing problem in microbiology: the evolution of bacterial cell shape. Bacterial cells can take a range of forms, among the most common being rods and spheres. The ...

There are ways you can reduce your risk of getting cancer — and the food you choose to eat is one of the most important ...