A new JSTAT study shows how to compute the minimum energy cells use to sustain certain metabolic pathways while suppressing ...

There are "costs of life" that mechanical physics cannot calculate. A clear example is the energy required to keep specific ...

In many submerged regions, murky mud shelters strange life-forms that seem to be the key to one of the biggest mysteries of life on Earth. These creatures belong to a domain of life called the archaea ...

Cell division is an essential process for all life on Earth, yet the exact mechanisms by which cells divide during early ...

In the coming decades, we might figure out how to make an entirely new kind of life: a mirror cell, in which every molecule is the mirror image of those found in normal cells. Such reversed cells have ...

Cell division is an essential process for all life on earth, yet the exact mechanisms by which cells divide during early ...