For a ringside view of cells

How a technique developed by physicists can help biologists

Ageing chromosomes

'Arms race' and evolution

The origin of species

Express yourself

The latest on calcium's role in regulating expression or repression of genes

Life in the deep sea

Catch 22

Face value

Right division

A cell tracks its chromosomes in order to split

Taking the short way home

Ants have sophisticated odometers

Sticking the fungus way

Baker's yeast offers clue to how biofilms stick on medical implants

Cancer fighter

How a molecule stops unhealthy genetic activity

Rooster recalls common past

Science is back

Wallaces butterflies

Liver fibrosis can be detected through blood test: new study

It will make diagnosis easier to perform, non-invasive, and less prone to sampling errors, researchers say

My genetic profile

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The underbelly of the beast

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The third connection

In what appears to be the decade's most spectacular event in biology, scientists sequenced the entire genome of Methanococcus jannaschii , a …

RNAs online

Scientists discover how molecules travel along a veritable 'information superhighway' inside plants

Tobacco fights hepatitis B

Sure shot!

How the malaria parasite takes out an 'insurance policy' to deal with the immune system

Sterile fathers, sterile sons

A new Odyssey

Geneticists discover nature's way of preventing interbreeding

Saving one's skin

A possible way of countering the virulence of a fungus