Cell Division

The planet's first photosynthesizers dined on green light

mRNA vaccines train the immune system in a similar way to traditional vaccines, but they use a different strategy to get there.

The shingles vaccine has a potential protective effect against dementia, write Harvard doctors Christopher Worsham and Anupam Jena.

Hypertrophy is more than just bro-science. Learn more about the real science and how to use strength training principles to grow bigger, stronger muscles.

FragFold, developed by MIT Biology researchers, is a computational method with potential for impact on biological research and therapeutic applications.

Patches of stem-cell-derived heart muscle improve damaged hearts.

Genome-scale metabolic models capture the complex chemical reactions that allow cells to function.

Bits of DNA from mitochondria can skip surprisingly fast into our genome and may reduce lifespan

Breakthroughs in synthetic biology could create mirror versions of natural molecules, with devastating consequences for life on Earth

Beata Halassy, cancer-free for 45 months, injected tumor with oncolytic viruses grown in her lab

By adding chloroplasts to animal cells, scientists are getting closer to bringing plants' biggest biological tool to other living things.

Photosynthesis has fueled life on Earth for billions of years. Learn how it shapes ecosystems, sustains life, and even aids climate models.

The far-reaching impact of certain viruses on the body can make cells grow out of control, causing cancer.

From tiny jellyfish to one-ton sharks, some animals subvert scientific expectations about aging and death.

Fossil evidence of how the earliest life on Earth came to be is hard to come by. But scientists have come up with a few theories based on the microbes...

A new "atlas" of early embryonic development in mammals suggests that the process is highly chaotic — but there is some method to the madness.

MIT researchers devised a way to expand tissue 20-fold in a single step. Their simple, inexpensive method could pave the way for nearly any biology lab to perform nanoscale imaging.

Surprise!

A research team consisting of Professor Dong Sung Kim, Professor Anna Lee, and Dr. Jaeseung Youn from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at POSTECH has successfully recreated the structure of wrinkles in biological tissue in vitro, uncovering the mechanisms behind their formation. Their findings were published on August 19 in the journal Nature Communications.

Researchers have developed a method of reversing the aging process in mouse egg cells.