Quantum dots, typically used in imaging, also relay temperature changes within a cell.
Quantum dots, typically used in imaging, also relay temperature changes within a cell.
Measuring how individual cells differ from each other will enhance the predictive power of biology.
A new, genetically encoded tag for electron microscopy may revolutionize studies of specific proteins in cells and tissues.
Researchers design a synthetic bacterium that kills the infectious microbe Pseudomonas aeruginosa, sacrificing itself in the process.
Caffeinated drinks may help prevent skin cancer by inhibiting a DNA repair pathway, thus killing potentially precancerous cells.
For the first time, researchers have engineered a multicellular organism that incorporates a synthetic amino acid into its proteins.
Sheng Wang leaves the Boston University School of Medicine and agrees to retract two published studies.
The Nobel Prize winner who discovered the gene that encodes the major histocompatibility complex passes away at age 90.