For the first time since 2014, keepers at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute (NZCBI) have ...

Biology has always been an unruly science. Cells divide when they want to. Genes switch on and off like temperamental lights.

For centuries, scientists have known that plants "breathe" through microscopic pores on their leaves called stomata. These ...

It may have fewer than many of the other sciences, but biology does have two dozen or so “rules”—broad generalizations about ...

While metabolomics is the large-scale comprehensive profiling of metabolites and other small molecules in the context of ...

Cancer therapy and synthetic biology are converging around a shared problem that has long frustrated oncologists and ...

Producers spot healthy soil through diverse ground cover, beneficial insects, earthworms and lab tests measuring microbial ...

Researchers are trying to understand why some wild species do better than others over time, as the environment changes.

A combination of two classical biological laws, the global constraint principle delves deeper into complex biological processes.

The goal should be a new golden rule linking the search for life elsewhere to the spread of life beyond the bounds of Earth.

The Department of Biology at Saint Louis University explores the dynamic science with the aim of gaining a better understanding of the processes of living organisms. Biologists search for answers to ...

Sweeney won the Top Presentation Award for his talk titled, “The SUMO Balancing Act: Insights into Cellular Robustness from ...