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A new genetic atlas for Toxoplasma parasites helps to understand how they develop and can become dormant in the human body.

A new study sheds light on the cells that help to fix lungs injured by influenza.

The protein Elkin1 gives cells a whole new way to sense mechanical forces.

Experiments in artificial cells reveal how real-life cells may rearrange their internal components.

Tracing the evolutionary history of the European blackcap using high-throughput sequencing reveals divergent migration in this small songbird evolved some 30,000 years ago.

Mexican tetras living in rivers and lakes can quickly adapt to the darkness in caves without changing their genome, answering an important evolutionary question.

Enzymes that produce bioluminescence in fungi can be used to build reporters which monitor the activity of genes in tobacco and other plants.

Phytochrome proteins begin to change shape in response to red light within a trillionth of a second.