If we asked you to think of a device that converts a chemical reaction into electricity, you’d probably say we were thinking of a battery. That’s true, but there is another device that does this that ...

All cells in animals, plants, fungi, and protists share a fundamental characteristic: they are eukaryotic cells—complex cells ...

The team used the computing power of the MareNostrum series of supercomputers to analyze public genomic data spanning biodiversity as a whole.

The surprising discovery of mysterious blobs inside our cells is revolutionising our understanding of how life works, and how ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Membrane-bound organelles were the textbook standard of how scientists thought cells were ...

Critical proteins involved in animal stem cell regulation are much older than previously thought, predating the origin of animals that likely evolved more than 700 million years ago. This is the ...

The 'cell of origin' of the second most common lung cancer and the way that it becomes dominant in the lung have been discovered, in a new study in mice and humans from researchers at UCL, the ...