Developing elite fruit cultivars typically requires long breeding cycles, especially in perennial woody species. This study ...

Scientists have found the sweet spot of drinking coffee daily that could lengthen the life span of people with major mental illness and help slow down biological aging by five years.

The ability to self-organize is a key feature of biological systems and is widely found in nature: small building blocks that autonomously assemble give rise to macromolecules such as the cell nucleus ...

After a finite number of divisions, cells simply give up. As each round of replication trims their telomeres—the protective ...

We have long struggled to determine how the first living organisms on Earth came together. Now, surprising evidence hints that poorly understood prions may have been the vital missing ingredient ...