With dogged persistence and an unwillingness to entertain defeat, Bruce Beutler discovered a receptor that powers the innate immune response to infections—and earned his share of a Nobel Prize.
With dogged persistence and an unwillingness to entertain defeat, Bruce Beutler discovered a receptor that powers the innate immune response to infections—and earned his share of a Nobel Prize.
Animals and plants come in a dizzying array of colors. Current research is cracking into the remarkable structures behind nature's artistic display.
Histones stored on lipid droplets in fly embryos provide a backup supply when newly synthesized ones are lacking.
Researchers are working to understand how often-colorless biological nanostructures give rise to some of the most spectacular technicolor displays in nature.
A Taiwanese businessman has created a new science award that gives recipients more money than Nobel Laureates.
A drug applied to the ears of deaf mice has prompted the regrowth of noise-damaged hair cells and resulted in slight improvements in the animals’ hearing.
Reprogrammed stem cells are not attacked by the immune system, or are they?
Elwood Jensen, whose research inspired new treatments for breast cancer, has passed away at age 92.
Despite decades of work, compounds in frog skins have failed to yield new antibiotics. Why?
Carl Woese, the discoverer of the third domain of life, has passed away at age 84.