In 2015, researchers at UC San Francisco found a structure inside of tumor cells that biologists had never seen before. Even more surprising, a closer examination of the structure revealed that it ...

A new magnetic material called a p-wave magnet uses helical electron spin patterns that deflect electric current, enabling ...

Mammals possess a novel gene that controls a novel structure in nerve cells. Evolution is often portrayed as a "tinkering" process, one that makes use of slight modifications to pre-existing ...

Proteins spontaneously fold into intricate three-dimensional shapes which are key to nearly every biological process. But the complexity of protein shapes makes them difficult to study. Recently, ...

Genome sequencing has transformed biomedical research, but it is only the first step toward understanding biological systems. Subsequent steps include the determination of three-dimensional (3D) ...

New research provide evidence that the crustacean carapace, along with other plate-like structures in arthropods (crustaceans, insects, arachnids, and myriapods) all evolved from a lateral leg lobe in ...