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Feeding-fasting rhythms and light-dark cycles direct regular changes in organ and cell size, as well as ribosome number and protein levels.

Scientists new to advocacy must find balance between embracing diverse perspectives and guarding against anti-scientific beliefs.

A heat block, a truck battery, and a novel RNA amplification assay make for in-the-field surveillance of the virus.

The proposed changes follow revelations in recent years that committee members preparing reports for the Academies did not disclose industry relationships. 

Teams of modelers compete to develop algorithms for estimating how people will perceive a particular odor from its molecular characteristics.

The green peach aphid can colonize new host plants with ease through rapid changes in gene expression.

Researchers are redesigning the humble brick to produce electricity, to clean water and air, and to harvest valuable compounds.

Scientists discover transcripts from the same gene that can express both proteins and noncoding RNA.
 

A new approach to immunotherapy finds that the immune-cell clonotypes that come to the rescue start out at very low frequencies.

Ben Barres recast glial cells from supporting actors to star performers, crucial for synaptic plasticity in the brain and for preventing neurodegenerative disorders.

The Yale University cell and molecular biologist is probing the deep mysteries of epidermal cells.

The 19th century biologist’s drawings, tainted by scandal, helped bolster, then later dismiss, his biogenetic law.