For decades, evolutionary biologists have relied on two distinct libraries of genetic information to reconstruct the tree of ...

Researchers at the Max Delbrück Center and the University of Oxford have found that a cellular housekeeping function called autophagy—by which cell components are broken down and recycled—plays a ...

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Researchers have identified a physical process called “mitochondrial pearling” that explains how cells keep their mitochondrial DNA evenly spaced and ready for inheritance during division. The finding ...

University of Nevada, Reno researchers Jeanne and David Zeh of the Department of Biology have received a five-year, $650,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to investigate the effects of ...