Rhodes scholar, renowned oncologist, contributor to The New Yorker and The New York Times. Author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning “The Emperor of All Maladies” and bestselling “The Gene.” Just 52, ...

From plants and bacteria to animals and humans, our world is filled with many living things. In fact, there are approximately 8.7 million species of plants and animals in existence, and only 1.2 ...

Understanding the human cell is vital to progress in the life sciences and to human health. Cells are the smallest, most basic unit of life responsible for all of life’s processes. A typical human ...

ON 25 July 1978, Louise Joy Brown was born at Oldham General Hospital in the UK. The first child to be born following IVF, she was called a miracle baby by some, a test-tube baby by others, and a ...

Cells are the basic units of life — but when it comes to cells, if you think basic means simple, think again. Cells are complicated, with many millions of biochemical reactions per second seething ...

What are these living units called cells? Much like mini-fiefdoms, cells have all the equipment and expertise necessary to carry out the functions of life. A cell can eat, grow, and move. It can ...

The problem of cell type became clear to genome biologist Jason Buenrostro in 2013. He was studying a cell line derived from someone with cancer, trying to map out how the DNA was arranged in the ...

THE CHEMICAL reactions on which life depends need a place to happen. That place is the cell. All the things which biology recognises as indisputably alive are either cells or conglomerations of cells ...