Mono Lake, tucked in the Eastern Sierra, is no ordinary lake. Its eerie tufa towers and teeming swarms of brine shrimp and ...

In biology classes from high school through university, I learned that mitochondria are little objects that reside within ...

My search for answers to these stupendously ambitious questions led me, it now seems inexorably, to mitochondria. This idea of mitochondria being little batteries with a built-in charger, about as ...

Understanding the origin of the building block of all animal and plant life may lead to more insights about life on Earth and ...

Very little is known about choanoflagellates, and there are interesting biological phenomena that we can only gain insight ...

A team was able to show that swimming movements are possible even without a central control unit. This not only explains the ...

Bacteria can do it, amoebas can do it, even blood cells can do it: They all have the ability to move in a goal-oriented way in liquids. And they do so despite having extremely simple structures ...

The earliest cells harnessed energy through geochemical reactions, a process that LMU researchers have now successfully ...

Estrogen-related receptors (ERRs) regulate muscle mitochondria in mice, revealing a new potential drug targets for metabolic ...

Chemistry professor Chris Chang’s lab studies the chemical biology of the elements, specifically examining the roles that ...

Scientists unmask a 'Skinwalker' parasite that kills human cells and then wears their skin as a disguise to avoid detection.

A study of human tumor cells implanted in mice from the MacPherson Lab at Fred Hutch describes a new way to screen for the ...