Nearly 150 years ago, scientists began to imagine how information might flow through the brain based on the shapes of neurons ...

Telomere phages, once ignored, help bacteria fight rivals using telocins. These toxins may target antibiotic-resistant ...

Plants are susceptible to a wide range of pathogens. For the common potato plant, one such threat is Pectobacterium ...

Researchers at the University of Cologne found that mitochondrial dysfunction leads to early skeletal aging by disrupting ...

Millions of people worldwide are affected by African sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and other life-threatening infections ...

African sleeping sickness is a serious infection caused by a parasitic microbe called Trypanosoma brucei. Using an imaging ...

She wants to live life to the fullest; he wants to live forever. Sophie and Martin are at the 2012 Gordon Research Conference on the Biology of Aging in Ventura, California. It is a foggy February ...

Until now, this was only possible using expensive structural biology methods such as electron microscopy ... be imaged with a light microscope after being specifically labeled with fluorescent ...