Understanding the origin of the building block of all animal and plant life may lead to more insights about life on Earth and ...

The University of California and the University of Vienna on Monday convinced a U.S. appeals court to revive their bid for patent rights to groundbreaking CRISPR gene-editing technology created by ...

To discuss and engage with each other on these questions, biologists of all stripes - from lab experimentalists to theoreticians to field-focused researchers - gathered in the Advanced Training Centre ...

Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.” So goes the famous dictum of Sherlock Holmes, echoed by paleobotanist C. Kevin Boyce in summarizing ...

Sterols are among the most abundant lipids in eukaryotic cells, yet are synthesized through notoriously long, complex metabolic pathways. Researchers have used a novel approach to show how they ...

New research from the Sainsbury Laboratory at the University of Cambridge has shed light on how plants precisely control ...

Imagine cells navigating through a complex maze, guided by chemical signals and the physical landscape of their environment.

New research has shed light on how plants precisely control their growth and development, revealing that seemingly similar molecular components fulfill surprisingly different jobs. New research ...

Then they used CAR T cell therapy to train the body's immune system to look for that synthetic antigen and destroy the marked tumor cells. "Tumor cells are sneaky. Most of the time, immune cells ...

New studies show that astrocytes, long thought to be support cells in the brain, are crucial intermediaries for relaying messages to neurons.