Whether you're baking bread or building an organism, the key to success is consistently adding ingredients in the correct order and in the right amounts, according to a new genetic study by University of Michigan researchers.

Advances in computer hardware and software, data storage and processing, optics, systems and instrumentation, labeling agents, and reagents have all contributed to the current surge in imaging in the life sciences.

Eppendorf and the journal Science are now accepting applications for the 2015 Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology.

Humankind’s ability to understand, and often drive, species extinction may be harnessed in the battle against cancer, according to a new study.

It’s hard to hide from a bat: The camouflage and mimicry techniques that animals use to avoid becoming a meal aren’t much use against a predator using echolocation. But a new study shows that moths can outsmart sonar with a flick of their long tails.

The University of Dundee is to lead a major project to help tackle one of four key biosciences `big data’ challenges identified by the UK’s Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council.

A new tool developed at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus lets scientists permanently mark neurons that are active at a particular time. 

The first comprehensive computer model to simulate the development of blood cells could help in the development of new treatments for leukaemia and lymphoma, say researchers at the University of Cambridge and Microsoft Research.

Technique could allow study of viral infections, cell division and photosynthesis in new detail.

New research finds new link between these biological clocks and lung disease.

For the first time, UNC neuroscientist Garret Stuber, PhD, imaged activity patterns of individual brain cells in freely moving mice to link specific basic behaviors to particular neurons.

Salmonella Lubbock will provide new avenues for research into the bacteria’s prevention.