The Illustrated Story of Life, biologist Christian Sardet invites readers on a vivid journey to appreciate the origin and ...

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Like schools of fish and flocks of birds, our cells can also migrate collectively in coordination with their neighbors. This ...

Long known as a messenger within cells, RNA is increasingly seen as life’s molecular communication system — even between organisms widely separated by evolution. For a molecule of RNA, the world is a ...

Life and death are traditionally viewed as opposites. But the emergence of new multicellular life-forms from the cells of a dead organism introduces a “third state” that lies beyond the traditional ...