Can life exist without the very metabolic machinery that defines it? The discovery of Candidatus Sukunaarchaeum mirabile obliges biologists to think squarely through this question. This small archaeon ...

Half a century ago, a quiet theorist working far from the big Western labs proposed a radical answer to one of science’s ...

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A research group has developed a novel and highly accessible technology for producing uniform biomolecular condensates using ...

Alcohol consumption leads to the formation of a toxic compound called acetaldehyde, which damages DNA. A research team from ...

As antibiotic-resistant infections rise and are projected to cause up to 10 million deaths per year by 2050, scientists are looking to bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria, as an alternative.