Scientists have discovered Sukunaarchaeum mirabile, a unique archaeon residing within marine plankton, challenging traditional definitions of life. Th ...

In an article published today in Nature, the team of Professor Denis Lafontaine (Head of the RNA Molecular Biology Laboratory ...

By tracking the movement of RNA molecules inside the nucleolus using advanced imaging and genomics techniques, the new method ...

Proteins are the infinitely varied chemicals that make cells work, and science has a pretty good idea how they are made. But a critical aspect ...

A microbe found in deep-sea mud is rewriting what it means to be alive. S. mirabile defies categories—neither virus nor cell, ...

This newly found organism doesn’t act like a virus or a cell, and that could change everything we know about biology.

Ribosomes are tiny molecular machines inside all living cells that build proteins, and ribosome biogenesis is the complex, ...

Because they rely on hosts for a majority of functions, viruses aren’t considered alive. But entities like this one ...

Ribosomes are tiny molecular machines inside all living cells that build proteins, and ribosome biogenesis is the complex, ...

New York-based Nanotronics builds compact, modular semiconductor plants called "Cubefabs."Its goal is to improve chip-making ...

Ribosomes are tiny molecular machines inside all living cells that build proteins, and ribosome biogenesis is the complex, ...