Emeritus professor Lucy Shapiro is the 18th recipient of the Lasker-Koshland Special Achievement Award, often called the American Nobel.

Human egg cells are often prone to chromosomal errors. As women age, the error rate increases sharply—and can contribute to ...

A new single-cell brain atlas reveals how midbrain neurons develop, helping refine Parkinson’s disease models and improve cell therapy protocols.

UC San Diego researchers combined artificial intelligence with molecular biology to unravel how immune cells in the gut ...

Arabidopsis thaliana was always an unlikely candidate for the limelight. But 25 years ago, the diminutive thale cress ...

There are many purposes that spots and stripes serve in nature, but how they form has been more of a mystery to scientists.

Walking 3,000 to 7,500 steps daily may slow cognitive decline in older adults with early Alzheimer's, reducing tau buildup and improving brain health.

Learn more about bowhead whales and how they routinely see out their 200th birthday — and this DNA-repair protein might just ...

Scientists found that colorful pigments in Earth’s cloud microbes may help telescopes identify signs of life on distant ...

Scientists from Duke-NUS Medical School and their collaborators have created one of the most comprehensive single cell maps ...

Understanding how cells turn genes on and off is one of biology's most enduring mysteries. Now, a new technology developed by ...

Researchers at Helmholtz Munich and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed Nicheformer, the first ...