Many Nobel laureates defied conventional schooling, overcoming failures, expulsions, and doubts to achieve brilliance. From ...

SHREVEPORT – LSU Shreveport herpetologist Dr. Stuart Nielsen and a pair of undergraduate students contributed to research that suggests biodiversity in Earth’s driest hot desert is much more expansive ...

Princeton bioengineer Clifford Brangwynne has been named a 2025 Keio Medical Science Prize Laureate for his discovery of liquid-liquid phase separation in cells. Japan’s Keio University awards the ...

Cells have a variety of processes and pathways that can repair damage, remove trash and debris, and boost healing. Scientists have now discovered a novel process in which cells eliminate stuff, and ...

Background IBD is a chronic inflammatory condition driven by complex genetic and immune interactions, yet preclinical models often fail to fully recapitulate all aspects of the human disease. A ...

A paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution finds that the relatively high rate of autism-spectrum disorders in humans is likely due to how humans evolved in the past. The paper is titled "A general ...

He was only 37 when he made a discovery that challenged the existing tenets of biology and led to an understanding of retroviruses and viruses, including H.I.V. By Gina Kolata David Baltimore, a ...

NEW YORK – BioMérieux reported on Thursday that its second quarter revenues rose 1 percent year over year due in part to sales growth in molecular biology clinical applications offset by weaker ...

Small fold – big role: A tissue fold known as the cephalic furrow, an evolutionary novelty that forms between the head and the trunk of fly embryos, plays a mechanical role in stabilizing embryonic ...

Steven Rose, who died last month, was a major figure in the field of neuroscience and a brilliant scientific popularizer. Rose was also a committed socialist who challenged the misuse of science to ...

Project backed by £9.1m funding from ARIA, the Advanced Research + Invention Agency, to develop synthetic chloroplast genomes Project is led by the Max-Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology ...