Thomas Verny is a clinical psychiatrist, academic, award-winning author, public speaker, poet and podcaster. He is the author of eight books, including the global bestseller The Secret Life of the ...

Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee still remembers the first cell he cultured: It was an immune cell from a mouse, and he had grown it in a petri dish. As he examined it through a microscope, the cell moved, ...

From plants and bacteria to animals and humans, our world is filled with many living things. In fact, there are approximately 8.7 million species of plants and animals in existence, and only 1.2 ...

Rhodes scholar, renowned oncologist, contributor to The New Yorker and The New York Times. Author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning “The Emperor of All Maladies” and bestselling “The Gene.” Just 52, ...

An experiment shows that one of the basic units of life -- nucleobases -- could have originated within giant gas clouds interspersed between the stars. An experiment shows that one of the basic units ...

The story of Tibor Gánti is one of a visionary scientist who remained in the shadows for far too long. As the scientific community continues to unravel the origins of life, his work provides a ...

University of California, San Francisco scientists have stripped the fundamental decision-making apparatus of a cell down to its bare essentials, revealing the inner workings of one of life's smallest ...

Understanding the human cell is vital to progress in the life sciences and to human health. Cells are the smallest, most basic unit of life responsible for all of life’s processes. A typical human ...

Take a minute and imagine a world where biologists do not have a concept of life. We can call this the “No-Concept-of-Life” (NCL) World. In the NCL world, biologists struggle to characterize exactly ...