Genes from fungi, bacteria, and viruses may have helped mosses and other plants to colonize the land.
Genes from fungi, bacteria, and viruses may have helped mosses and other plants to colonize the land.
The tenderness of cancer cells squeezed by a special apparatus can help pinpoint the ones most likely to spread the disease.
Technology company Knome unveils a machine it says will "break the bottleneck" in the interpretation of human genome data.
An HIV drug can bind to and alter the function of an immune molecule, causing a dangerous reaction in patients with a particular allele.
A unique organism sighted only once, more than a century ago, could shed light on the evolution of multicellularity—if it ever actually existed.
Laboratory-raised populations of dung beetles reveal a mother's extragenetic influence on the physiques of her sons.
Mass spec plus novel software equals dynamic views into the chemical lives of microbes.
Check out other memorable images and videos that were submitted to this year’s Labby Multimedia Awards.