When you picture a single cell, you probably imagine something super tiny that you had to look at through a microscope. But, ...

"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative," wrote H. G. Wells. This principle—that survival requires ...

Cancer research, drug safety testing and aging biology may all gain a major boost from a new fluorescent sensor developed at ...

Scientists uncover a basic principle that shows how higher nutrient levels change the pace of cell growth, revealing a universal rule that applies to microbial growth. A research group that includes a ...

UMAMI Bioworks has unveiled its Virtual Marine Cell, the world’s first computational platform that simulates the inner ...

The newly described microbe represents a world of parasitic, intercellular biodiversity only beginning to be revealed by ...

Scientists have created a live-cell DNA sensor that reveals how damage appears and disappears inside living cells, capturing ...

Forty thousand years after they were locked into Arctic ground, ancient microbes from Alaskan permafrost have stirred back to ...

Ribosomes, the protein factories of the cell, are essential for all living organisms. They bind to mRNA and move along the ...

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Scientists uncover a universal law explaining how nutrient increases slow cell growth, reshaping our understanding of biology.

On the universal curve, performance climbs steadily as organisms warm until they reach an optimal temperature where activity ...