A bold funding initiative aims to help scientists predict a T cell’s target antigens, with implications far beyond cancer ...

Mice with identical genetics and environmental exposures display different cancer risk profiles based on distinct epigenetic ...

The Japanese encephalitis virus, which is relatively new to Australia, poses a significant health risk to a naïve population.

Cells use small extracellular vesicles (sEVs) to transfer cargo and chemical messengers to neighboring and distant cells.

Lab safety rules dictate that one must tie back long hair. Rosemarie Hansen learned the hard way when an open flame turned ...

Choosing a blood collection tube that maintains sample integrity is crucial for researchers examining the plasma proteome.

In March of this year, Colombia heard some important news that had nothing to do with the country’s infamous drug trade. A Colombian scientist named Manuel E. Patarroyo published a study in Nature ...

As an undergraduate at Radcliffe College—Harvard's allgirl sister institution—in the 1960s, Susan Gottesman earned pocket money working as a technician in Jim Watson's Harvard lab. "I would hear ...

In eukaryotic genetics, the one-gene/one-protein concept has, for the most part, breathed its last. Researchers have rallied behind mechanisms such as alternative splicing, which may allow a lowly ...

No protein is an island. They're linked by complex networks, and many cellular processes – transcription, translation, mitosis, and motility, to name but a few – are the work of complex macromolecular ...

The scientist who discovered hybridization and the "other" double helix describes what it meant to biology. By Alexander Rich Fifty-two years ago I was venturing to the basement of Cal Tech chemistry ...

Physically and behaviorally, few creatures have been measured, tested, and probed as much as the laboratory mouse. Yet what do scientists know about making mice happy or free of pain? Often, the ...