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Zhijian “James” Chen received this year’s Albert Lasker Award for discovering cGAS, an enzyme which scopes out DNA-based threats and alerts the immune system.

A new study employs a multiomic approach to study how cytomegalovirus activation impacts breast milk bioactive factors and the infant microbiota.

Even as CRISPR-based tools become a lab staple, scientists strive to tackle the associated technological challenges to improve their efficacy and safety.   

Murine T cells that survived at least four host lifetimes offer insights into immunological senescence. 

Barbara Di Ventura, a musician at heart and a scientist by trade, takes a musical approach to sharing research.

Studying human embryonic development is complicated for several reasons. Models derived from pluripotent stem cells representing distinct stages offer a path to studying this process.

Scientists explore how unicellular aquatic organisms could help humanity exist more sustainably.

Cells send electrical impulses throughout the body, but electrophysiologists struggled to tune into these signals until the patch clamp technique was developed.

Shapeshifting proteins challenge a long-standing maxim in biology.

Molecular neurobiologist Julie Moreno explores the consequences of protein misfolding in the brain.

For years, neuroscience research overlooked female subjects, creating a significant bias. Today, researchers actively rebalance the scales with more inclusive and diverse studies.

In the middle of the 20th century, science disciplines collided and set the stage for a technology that changed cell research.