Scientists have transformed enigmatic cell structures, called vaults, into storage units for messenger-RNA molecules made in ...

Drug discovery is shifting from static snapshots to moving pictures. Instead of inferring how medicines work from end results ...

Scientists have developed a powerful new microscope that reveals, for the first time, how plants store a 'memory' of winter ...

Proteins that are no longer needed, defective, or potentially harmful are labeled with a molecular "tag" and dismantled in ...

The origin of life is surely one of the most important questions in biology. How did inanimate molecules give rise to the ...

Biology has always been an unruly science. Cells divide when they want to. Genes switch on and off like temperamental lights.

The discovery that tissues use electricity to expel unhealthy cells is part of a surge of renewed interest in the currents ...

Researchers from the School of Engineering at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) have developed a robust coating layer that significantly enhances the durability of perovskite ...

The fungal compound verticillin A, discovered more than 50 years ago, has long been regarded for its potential ...

Researchers created a gas that doesn’t experience resistance or diffusion when cooled to freezing, proving it’s possible for ...

Research into how a father’s choices — such as diet, exercise, stress, nicotine use — may transfer traits to his children has become impossible to ignore. The standard sperm-meets-egg story posits ...

Researchers from the School of Engineering at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) have developed a ...