A team of researchers studied the properties of membranes to understand how these cellular structures influenced the chemistry of life on Earth as it began.

A team led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine has identified flavonoids, natural compounds found in plants, that are toxic to bladder cancer cells cultured in the lab.

Imagine drawing on something as delicate as a living cell—without damaging it. Researchers at the University of Missouri have ...

In biology classes from high school through university, I learned that mitochondria are little objects that reside within ...

My search for answers to these stupendously ambitious questions led me, it now seems inexorably, to mitochondria. This idea of mitochondria being little batteries with a built-in charger, about as ...

Obesity increases the risk of numerous secondary diseases such as type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure and mental illness. Prof. Dr. Kerstin Stemmer, Professor of Molecular Cell Biology at the ...

To discuss and engage with each other on these questions, biologists of all stripes - from lab experimentalists to ...