A longstanding basic question in biology relates to how life satisfies the fundamental constraints put on it by physics and chemistry. Darwin's warm pond hypothesis for the origin of primordial cells ...

Ischemia and reperfusion can cause death and illness. The interruption of the arterial blood supply to a single organ or to multiple organs leads to hypoxic injury and cell death. In cases in which ...

Researchers at Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) have uncovered a critical link between the immune system in early life and ...

Fluorescent proteins have revolutionized science, enabling researchers to tag and visualize individual molecules in living cells, tissues, and animals. Using these tools, researchers have watched ...

SAN DIEGO — The landscape of our planet is changing. Every form of life is being impacted by climate change and that includes plants. Researchers at the Salk Institute have created a new technology to ...

While these are not artificial life forms created entirely from scratch, the work demonstrates an unprecedented level of ...

Scientists at Feinberg are reshaping scientific understanding of the cell's tiniest components—structures once thought to be static, now revealed to be dynamic engines of cellular life. As they probe ...

Within a tiny plankton, an even smaller cell has been found living an unexpectedly virus-like existence, challenging what it means to be alive. The line between living and inanimate has traditionally ...

Axel Nimmerjahn helped develop a new technology for imaging cells, called visible-spectrum antigen-stabilizable fluorescent nanobodies, which provides a versatile platform for imaging and studying ...