New research shows that we regularly transfer traces of our genital microbiomes to sexual partners—a discovery that could ...

Recent research into bacterial cellulose patches may speed plants' recovery, improve grafting and help with preservation.

Just as the human body serves as a habitat for bacteria and other microbes, diverse, tiny organisms known as protists host ...

Functional subpopulations of β-cells emerge to control pulsative insulin secretion in the pancreatic islets of mice through calcium oscillations.

Scientists have discovered that some tiny segments of RNA thought to be junk instead have a functional role in suppressing ...

Synthetic cells that look just like natural cells but are chemically reversed could outcompete other living organisms − with ...

A complex molecular machine, the spliceosome, ensures that the genetic information from the genome, after being transcribed ...

This complex microbial dance seems to have a really important role in our health. Oral diseases and even oral cancers have ...

Oberstaller and her colleagues published their paper, “Supersaturation mutagenesis reveals adaptive rewiring of essential ...

Researchers uncover key mechanisms in gene regulation that may lead to better design of RNA-based medicines.

In this manuscript the authors established a novel three-dimensional culture system for stratified epithelia that allows epithelial cells to undergo epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and ...