Biology & Aging
Humans interact with bacteria almost every minute of our lives. Of the millions of these interactions, only a handful result in disease, and some...
MIT researchers find that the key to purple bacteria’s light-harvesting prowess lies in highly symmetrical molecules.
Purple bacteria are among...
To eventually use stem cells in regenerative medicine, scientists need to understand how stem cells become organized into particular tissue patterns...
For plants and animals forced to tough out harsh winter weather, the coverlet of snow that blankets the north country is a refuge, a stable beneath-...
To understand how proteins work it is important to know their three-dimensional shape, but also the way it is produced. We need to know, in other...
Researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine have developed a new technique to see how different types of cells interact in a living mouse...
Having a neighborly chat improves seed germination, finds research in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Ecology.
Even when other known means...
My most recent post was about the worthiness of so-called “demarcation” problems, such as reflections on what distinguishes science from philosophy,...
Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have discovered that a protein found in the cells surrounding pancreatic cancers play...
While the search continues for the Fountain of Youth, researchers may have found the body’s “fountain of aging”: the brain region known as the...
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