For the first time, researchers have measured how energy forms different wave patterns in the cell’s outer membrane and its ...

Long known as a messenger within cells, RNA is increasingly seen as life’s molecular communication system — even between ...

A new study in Nature shows that one specific lipid type is essential for cancer immune evasion--so much so that certain ...

At a microscopic scale, only natural motors have existed in organisms such as archae. Now, researchers have built such motors ...

New study demonstrates that one type of lipid is so critical for immune evasion that certain cancers cannot proliferate without them. Modulating intake of dietary lipids could open up an avenue for ...

Liquid crystals are all around us, from cell phone screens and video game consoles to car dashboards and medical devices. Run ...

This article examines how next-generation sequencing and state-of-the-art imaging technologies are being combined to ...

A groundbreaking cancer drug has been developed that targets and destroys solid tumours without harming healthy cells.

Among other winners of the Nikon Small World in Motion competition are videos of a fruit fly embryo and of water droplets ...

James Chen, a professor of microbiology at UT Southwestern Medical Center, has won a Lasker Award for his discovery of an ...

Scripps Research scientists have created a method using four-nucleotide codons to incorporate non-canonical amino acids into ...

Scientists have long known that cancer cells alter lipid metabolism, but it was generally assumed that cancer cells were ...