How much does life weigh? It sounds like a strange question, but to biologists it makes all the sense in the world. Yeast ...

Researchers from Kyushu University have developed an innovative computational method, called ddHodge, that can reconstruct ...

Why does cancer sometimes recur after chemotherapy? Why do some bacteria survive antibiotic treatment? In many cases, the ...

Eight years ago, 10x Genomics launched the first commercially available single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) product for the company’s flagship instrument, the 10x Chromium. (This occurred one year ...

Researchers at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), and at Harvard Medical School have used mathematical modeling to show how individual cells appear capable of learning, a behavior once deemed ...

When you take a drug, where in your body does it actually go? For most medications, scientists can make only educated guesses about the answer to this question.

MIT researchers are using living cells to target diseased brain areas and deliver tiny electronic devices that can modulate ...

Too much of a good thing is no good at all. Living organisms enjoy sunlight -- in fact, many need it to stay alive -- but they tend to avoid light that is too bright. Animals go to their shelter, ...

One of the biggest quests in biology is understanding how every cell in an animal's body carries an identical genome yet ...