Mitochondria don’t just generate energy—they also carefully organize their own DNA in a surprisingly elegant way. Scientists have discovered that a long-overlooked phenomenon called “mitochondrial ...

This video explains the stages of mitosis, contrasts them with meiosis and the creation of haploid gametes, and concludes by ...

Adult Swim's My Adventures with Superman returns for its third season this Saturday, June 13, at midnight ET on Toonami — and the show's central scientific question lands closer to real-world biology ...

† Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States ‡ Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak ...

At the dawn of complex life, evolution created a container for DNA, its most treasured item. A few billion years later, 20th-century microscopists looked at this container — the nucleus — up close and ...

Influenza virus is a common cause of human respiratory infection with a high rate of morbidity and mortality, particularly in the elderly and in infants. The influenza particle, or virion, is ...

Development of oral, broad-spectrum therapeutics targeting SARS-CoV-2, its variants, and related coronaviruses could curb the spread of COVID-19 and avert future pandemics. We created a novel ...

Artistic rendering of cellulose biosynthesis with zoomed in view. Individual cellulose chains (dark brown) are synthesized by plasma membrane-bound (purple) cellulose synthase enzyme complexes (cream) ...

This finding challenges and expands previous models of gyroid formation in butterflies, highlighting a mechanism based on the packing of fibrillar helical elements. By uncovering this natural ...

In a discovery with potential practical applications, a team of Rutgers biophysicists, bioengineers and plant biologists capture first live images In a groundbreaking study on the synthesis of ...