Recent studies reveal that individual cells possess the ability to learn, refuting the idea that complex learning behaviors ...

"Ballistic seed dispersal" is not something you see often in plants – and for good reason, perhaps, when you see just what the affectionately called squirting cucumber is capable of. Shunning external ...

An ambitious project launched in 2016 has made a dent in one of biology’s greatest challenges — with more than 3,600 ...

Researchers with the global Human Cell Atlas (HCA) consortium report significant progress in their quest for a better ...

The Human Cell Atlas (HCA) consortium has published over 40 studies revealing groundbreaking insights into human biology ...

Australia’s vibrant biodiversity is hanging by a thread, but citizen scientists have stepped up with passion and purpose.

They provide essential tools and examples of how cell atlases can be built at large scale. Taken together, these studies ...

Recent findings indicate that the chirality of molecules, critical to life's structure, might not have been as fixed in early ...

In thinking about how to do this, it is interesting to compare Nature with simulated biology. Some things that are very difficult in Nature are trivial for computers: consider how much cellular ...

Nature Chemical Biology is an international monthly journal that provides a high-visibility forum for the publication of top-tier original research and commentary for the chemical biology community.

Researchers from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have discovered the underlying biology that identifies a subset of patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia who have a higher risk version ...