Rhodes scholar, renowned oncologist, contributor to The New Yorker and The New York Times. Author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning “The Emperor of All Maladies” and bestselling “The Gene.” Just 52, ...

From plants and bacteria to animals and humans, our world is filled with many living things. In fact, there are approximately 8.7 million species of plants and animals in existence, and only 1.2 ...

Understanding the human cell is vital to progress in the life sciences and to human health. Cells are the smallest, most basic unit of life responsible for all of life’s processes. A typical human ...

Cells are the basic units of life — but when it comes to cells, if you think basic means simple, think again. Cells are complicated, with many millions of biochemical reactions per second seething ...

The problem of cell type became clear to genome biologist Jason Buenrostro in 2013. He was studying a cell line derived from someone with cancer, trying to map out how the DNA was arranged in the ...

Cells are the basic unit of life, with a remarkable ability to sense their environment, process information and adapt accordingly. With 37.2 trillion cells in the human body, there remains plenty for ...

From the bizarre creatures in the depths of the oceans to the bacteria inside our bodies, all life on Earth consists of cells. But we have only a very rough idea of how even the simplest of those ...

THE CHEMICAL reactions on which life depends need a place to happen. That place is the cell. All the things which biology recognises as indisputably alive are either cells or conglomerations of cells ...

Cell physiology is the study of the functional properties of cells, the basic units of life, and encompasses the investigation of processes such as metabolism, signal transduction, gene expression, ...