The rod-shaped tuberculosis (TB) bacterium, which the World Health Organization has once again ranked as the top infectious disease killer globally, is the first single-celled organism ever observed ...

Researchers at the Centre (CRG) reveal that metabolic enzymes known for their roles in energy production and nucleotide synthesis are taking on unexpected "second jobs" within the nucleus, ...

F or the first time ever, two black-footed ferret kits have been born to a cloned endangered animal. The mother is a ferret ...

Membraneless organelles, also called biomolecular condensates, are changing how scientists think about protein chemistry, ...

although the researchers have already seen enough to suggest that their “synthetic biology-based approach may serve as a foundation for creating artificially photosynthetic animal cells.” ...

This module introduces you to the structure of prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells and the cell biology that allow different cells to do different things including some highly specialised cells of ...

As the holiday season gets underway in November, book publishers are gearing up with seasonally and thematically appropriate releases. You’ll find your standard feel-good generational tales like ...

Department of Energy Science and Engineering, Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST), Daegu 42988, Republic of Korea UE Science, R7-507, 333 Techno Jungang-daero, Daegu 42988, ...

All modern multicellular life — all life that any of us regularly see — is made of cells with a knack for compartmentalization. Recent discoveries are revealing how the first eukaryote got its start.

The Department of Biology provides the student with opportunities to obtain a broad foundation of biological knowledge and to pursue the study of a particular area of biology through upper-division ...