Proteins are the tiny machines that keep our cells running, and how long they last in the cell often determines how well they ...

Animals come in an extraordinary range of body shapes. A starfish looks nothing like an earthworm, a mouse, or a human. Yet even closely related species can appear radically different: corals, ...

My colleague and I have published a new study of cactus flowers which may help explain the conundrum. For more than a century ...

Scientists have uncovered an enormous hidden archive of plant DNA that has endured for more than 400 million years. By comparing hundreds of plant genomes, researchers identified more than 2.3 million ...

For decades, scientists have been carefully unraveling the role of genes in disease by examining how small variations in a person's genetic code can shape lifelong risk of developing common conditions ...

While the investigation of species-level traits has revealed broad effects of environmental disturbances on communities and ecosystems, it is vital to ...

Several measurement techniques used in the life sciences gather data for many more variables per sample than the typical number of samples assayed. For instance, DNA microarrays and mass spectrometers ...