Can the bend of a banana give us insight into cancer? What does the shape of a rice grain have to do with infertility? The ...

Every second, hundreds to thousands of molecules move through thousands of nuclear pores in each of your cells. A new high-definition view reveals the machine in action.

SISSA Colloquium returns on Wednesday, March 18th, at 2 PM in Aula Magna Budinich. This time, we will have the pleasure of hosting Professor Huib Mansvelder (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), who will ...

An illustration of osteoporosis. (Science Photo Library/Brand X Pictures/Getty Images) Research points to a key bone-strengthening mechanism at work in the body, which could be targeted to treat the ...

Antibiotic resistance is rising fast, killing tens of thousands each year in the U.S. alone—and scientists are racing to find new ways to stop deadly bacteria. Now, researchers have uncovered how tiny ...

Scientists want to redesign psychedelics so that they don’t induce a trip—but they still improve mental health.

In 2009, investigators probing a grave-desecration scandal at Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip, Illinois, recovered a clump of moss ...

The man spending $2 million a year to not die might be the clearest mirror we have for a fear most of us carry quietly, one that started long before any of us ever heard the word 'biomarker.' ...

Hair regrowth treatment may soon take a major leap forward, as researchers in a recent study have successfully grown complete ...

Living human neurons were trained to play Doom, extending the long-running engineering benchmark into biological computing.

A new LMU study shows how proteins function reliably even without a stable 3D structure – and the crucial importance not only of short sequence motifs, but also of the chemical characteristics.

The challenges of connecting molecular changes to tissue structure and highlights the potential of multifractal frameworks to quantify complex biological patterns ...