The COVID-19 pandemic led to heightened public interest in learning about viruses and how they can cause diseases. There has ...

Gene mutations have consequences both good and bad—from resistance to conditions like diabetes to susceptibility to certain ...

In immune organs, plasma cells, which produce antibodies, and cells with specific structures and functions are the main ...

which are the precursors of the adult cells. In a recent article published in PLOS Biology, a team led by researchers at ...

Assistant Professor Benjamin Nilsson Payant is awarded for his studies on the molecular biology of emerging RNA viruses. His ...

In a groundbreaking study, researchers at McMaster University have identified a potential treatment for Sandhoff and Tay-Sachs diseases—two rare, often fatal lysosomal storage disorders that cause ...

The aging and failure of cells that occurs when one part of the body is damaged can spread to other organs, a study suggests.

Sphere Fluidics, a leading provider of innovative droplet-based microfluidics solutions for functional profiling of single ...

The aging and failure of cells that occurs when the liver is damaged can spread to other organs, suggests a new study in mice ...

Researchers using machine learning discovered that variations in microbial load in the gut, influenced by age, sex, diet, and ...

Few questions have captivated humankind more than the origin of life on Earth. How did the first living cells come to exist? How did these early protocells develop the structural membranes necessary ...

This is a summary of: Giger, G. H. et al. Inducing novel endosymbioses by implanting bacteria in fungi. Nature 635, 415–422 ...