Gut support cells communicate with surprising precision – like brain neurons – using tiny extensions to send instructions to ...

A KAIST research team led by Professor Won Do Heo (Department of Biological Sciences) has developed an optogenetic platform, ...

All life is connected in a vast family tree. Every organism exists in relationship to its ancestors, descendants, and cousins ...

A sugar made by deep-sea microbes causes cancer cells to self-destruct, and boosts the body’s defenses in the process.

Scientists have discovered a sugar compound from deep-sea bacteria that can destroy cancer cells in a dramatic way. This natural substance, produced by microbes living in the ocean, causes cancer ...

In a hot spring at Yellowstone National Park, a microbe does something that life shouldn’t be able to do: It breathes oxygen ...