Inside every living cell, proteins and membranes are in constant motion, reshaping, colliding, and flexing as they keep an ...

Randomness inside cells can decide whether a cancer returns after chemotherapy or whether an infection survives antibiotics.

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

Researchers released a consensus statement with recommendations to update T cell nomenclature and improve communication ...

Why does cancer sometimes recur after chemotherapy? Why do some bacteria survive antibiotic treatment? In many cases, the ...

It may have fewer than many of the other sciences, but biology does have two dozen or so “rules”—broad generalizations about ...

Every person who has ever been pregnant leaves a biological trace that is far more intimate than a family photo album. During ...

Scientists decoded basic molecular processes in metabolism, investigated premenstrual chocolate cravings, and figured out how ...

Immune cells called B cells make antibodies that fight off invading bacteria, viruses and other foreign substances. During ...

In the battle against type 1 diabetes (T1D), one researcher at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) is leading a ...