Biology

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Not-so-plain sight

Scientists and companies invest years and fortunes searching for new medicines. Many discoveries might already exist but remain hidden in… Read More

June 21, 2023

Computing function from form

Over the past two years, artificial intelligence has shown it can predict what many cellular components look like. For instance,… Read More

January 4, 2023

Scaling cancer

Like falling dominos, the cascading processes that control how our body’s cells divide, grow and eventually die usually go as… Read More

September 6, 2022

Bargain proteins

Devising a drug to treat a disease isn’t easy. It means screening hundreds of thousands of compounds, testing a small… Read More

May 17, 2022

Protein shakeup

In the old days of cell biology, scientists knew the atomic structures of few membrane proteins. Now, amid the so-called… Read More

December 1, 2021

DNA repair 2.0

The DNA in every human cell gets damaged tens of thousands of times every day. A nucleotide – one of… Read More

August 4, 2021

Countering COVID

As the COVID-19 pandemic began taking hold in early 2020, Jeremy Smith of Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and the… Read More

May 19, 2021

On cancer’s trail

A Duke University team is learning to track roving killers: tumor cells that separate and circulate through the body before… Read More

April 13, 2021

Spying on cancer

Northwestern University researchers reported a strange phenomenon earlier this year. The team, led by Vadim Backman, Walter Dill Scott Professor… Read More

November 6, 2019

Biting back at the flu bug

For a common virus, influenza remains an enigma. Some strains – like the one that caused the 1918 pandemic –… Read More

April 10, 2019