Most organisms fit comfortably into standard definitions of “life,” i.e., cells that grow, reproduce independently, and ...

Cell division is a fundamental process for all living organisms. Despite billion years of evolution, prokaryotes, including bacteria and archaea, utilize only a few conserved mechanisms to divide.

If a gene is evolutionarily conserved, that shows it must be doing something important. Otherwise, nature would let it go.

The glycocalyx surrounds each cell in the human body like a coat. This complex sugar layer plays a key role in the ...

Advanced light microscopy techniques are giving scientists a new understanding of human biology and what goes wrong in ...

In a scientific first, researchers from Vanderbilt University and the University of California, San Diego, have generated a ...

Specifically, the researchers found that intersectin keeps tiny, message-carrying bubbles inside brain cells in a particular ...

The prokaryotic GTPase FtsZ, a homologue of tubulin, was shown to form filaments and to interact with the membrane during bacterial cell division 40. Actin homologues have been discovered in ...

Apart from carrying the information to encode proteins in, RNA molecules can adopt intricate 2D and 3D structures.

The Uttar Pradesh Secondary Education Service Selection Board (UPSESSB), Allahabad, has released the syllabus for the Trained ...