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16,000 New Species Discovered Every Year on Earth
You might think that in the age of satellites and artificial intelligence, there isn't much left to discover on our own planet.
Your Body Contains Nearly as Many Bacteria as Human Cells
It's hard to believe that a simple number, repeated without verification for decades, could establish itself as scientific truth. For a long
Does a Protein That Cleans Synapses Really Slow Down Parkinson's
Long before the first clinical signs of diseases like Parkinson's or Alzheimer's appear in a patient, a silent process is already unfolding
The Technique That Cuts Sample Loss a Thousandfold in Molecular Imaging
Cryo-electron microscopy, often referred to by its abbreviation cryo-EM, has established itself in recent years as one of the most powerful tools
The Amino Acid That Decides Whether Your Cells Heal a Wound or Grow a Hair
The stem cells of hair follicles are mostly known by the public for their obvious role: they continuously produce new hair throughout
A New Method Extracts DNA From Soil Bacteria That Cannot Be Grown in a Lab
The vast majority of soil bacteria stubbornly refuse to grow in a laboratory Petri dish. Microbiologists have known this for a long
Were the Last Neanderthals Really All Inbred
For a long time, the story told to prehistory enthusiasts fit into one simple sentence: Neanderthals died out roughly 40,000 years ago,
How Brand New Genes Are Born From DNA That Did Nothing
For a long time, evolutionary genetics rested on a simple and widely accepted idea: every gene in an organism descended from older
This Self-Copying RNA Molecule Reopens the Mystery of Life
The Laboratory of Molecular Biology at the Medical Research Council (MRC-LMB), based in Cambridge, ranks among the most prestigious biology research institutions