Cells are like metropolises, home to millions of molecular residents. If one were to stand atop a high-rise, trying to ...

In 1982, she led the research team that figured out how to genetically alter plants, a discovery that would eventually ...

Explore the complex patterns inside plant cells and discover the amazing structures that make leaves function. #PlantScience ...

Scientists visually tracked an RNA intron jumping from a predator to its prey, revealing insights into gene transfer across ...

The first evidence that bacteria can convert toxic uranium dissolved in water into a stable chemical compound.

It took two scientists decades to find a new nitrogen-fixing organelle. It could change the future of sustainable agriculture ...

Celldetective is an open-source software integrating segmentation, tracking, and event detection to perform high-throughput end-to-end study of dynamic cell interactions, without requiring coding ...

A new time-lapse captures mycorrhiza in motion at a sub-cellular level for the first time. Dr Jennifer McGaley explains how her 56-hour marathon opened up the mysterious life of fungi.

Deep inside a small, windowless room at the University of California, Berkeley, two microscopes are quietly capturing some of the most detailed views of life ever recorded. Day and night, they collect ...

Biohub and UC Berkeley show that the laser phase plate, a revolutionary device with a laser 100 million times brighter than the Sun, dramatically improves images obtained through cryo-electron ...

Damaged DNA can escape from one human cell and infiltrate another. Like prisoners tunneling out of jail, this DNA travels via tubelike structures between neighboring cells, scientists report May 19 in ...