Too much of a good thing is no good at all. Living organisms enjoy sunlight—in fact, they need it to stay alive—but they tend ...

Few questions have captivated humankind more than the origin of life on Earth. How did the first living cells come to exist? How did these early protocells develop the structural membranes necessary ...

These CENP-A proteins ensure that divided genetic information is kept intact during mitosis.

The origin of many diseases such as Alzheimer's or Parkinson's can be found at the molecular level in our body, in other ...

New research shows that the neural circuit responsible for stabilising gaze can develop in the absence of motor neurons, contrary to a long-standing model in the field.

Hope Center for Neurological Disorders, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, USA ...