Understanding embryo development requires comprehending how a single fertilized cell, the zygote, embarks on a remarkable transformation into a complex multicellular organism. Through precise cell ...

The field of systems biology has made significant progress in recent years, with advances in computational and experimental techniques enabling researchers to study biological systems in unprecedented ...

Ever better experimental techniques allow us to perform experiments under tightly controlled conditions and can deliver gigantic amounts of data reflecting the complexity of biology. This has vastly ...

Our daily life consists of a science invisible to the naked eye. Think of how molecules come together to form tiny machines within different parts of our bodies, like how the neural networks of our ...

Discoveries that impact lifespan and healthspan in fruit flies are usually tested in mice before being considered potentially relevant in humans, a process that is expensive and time intensive. A ...

Biology — the science of life, living things and the processes that keep us all running — links up in essential ways with many other sciences, such as chemistry, physics and mathematics, which help us ...

Wheat is one of the world's most important staple foods, especially in the form of bread. A joint study by the Leibniz Institute for Food Systems Biology at the Technical University of Munich (LSB) ...

Systems biology, a siren in a sea of dark prospects, has lured investors frustrated with low returns in biotechnology and anxious to set a new course of drug discovery. Institutions have also geared ...

Thought LeadersJames J. CollinsTermeer Professor of Medical Engineering and ScienceMassachusetts Institute of Technology In this interview, Professor James J. Collins, co-founder of the field of ...

Mary Brunkow, senior program manager at the Institute for Systems Biology (ISB), left, and Fred Ramsdell, co-founder and chair of Sonoma Biotherapeutic’s scientific advisory board, won the 2025 Nobel ...

Mary Brunkow speaks at an event Tuesday at Seattle’s Institute for Systems Biology celebrating her 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. (ISB Photo / Alex Garland) The groundbreaking immunology ...