Cells Are the Master Builders of Life
Explore One person has done more than any other to put the notion of the gene at the center of our understanding of life on Earth and our being: Richard…
Genetics
A Universal Cancer Treatment? – Nautilus
Explore Himanshu Brahmbhatt was staring at the results of a clinical trial that looked too good to be true. A co-founder and CEO of EnGeneICa biopharmaceutical company, Brahmbhatt was running…
Embryo Cells Set Patterns for Growth by Pushing and Pulling
Explore One of the longest-standing questions in biology is how a living thing that starts as an embryonic blob of uniform cells morphs over time into an organism with diverse…
Life's First Peptides May Have Grown on RNA Strands
Explore The idea that life's deepest, oldest roots were laid down by RNA molecules that evolved ever more complexity has dominated the origins-of-life field for the past few decades, reigning…
The Race to Protect Sweet Corn
Explore We may not always call it sweet corn, but we enjoy this American staple nearly daily. It's sweet corn that we grill on the Fourth of July, charring the…
Plants Fight for Their Lives
Explore It's 2050. The world population has increased by 2.3 billion to 9.9 billion. Demand for food has risen 70 to 100 percent but a warming planet, extreme weather, and…
Geneticist Paul Nurse talks to Herlinde Koelbl on his Nobel Prize-winning discovery, failure and a surprise about his heredity.
Explore Paul Nurse is a geneticist whose own heredity was entirely hidden from him until fairly recently, when he was forced to take a closer look at his birth certificate.…