Chemical biology is the study of the chemicals and chemical reactions involved in biological processes, incorporating the disciplines of bioorganic chemistry, biochemistry, cell biology and ...

Studying biology involves studying life in its many forms. For people who are curious about the world around them and who have an interest in the sciences, majoring in biology can open a number of ...

We now understand that genomes in all three domains of life produce functional RNAs that do not encode proteins (non-coding (nc)RNAs), but do exert important influences on diverse cellular processes.

Meristems are regions of unspecialised cells in plants that are capable of cell division. Meristems make unspecialised cells that have the potential to become any type of specialised cell. They are ...

Osmosis refers to the movement of water molecules only. The slideshow shows an example of osmosis showing the direction of movement of water between two different concentrations of sugar solutions: ...

Whether it’s a canary’s chirp or a treefrog’s croak, humans tend to prefer many of the same sounds that animals do themselves, a new study finds ...