Scientists successfully borrow concepts from string theory to explain the network architecture of branching biological systems like neurons ...

While our ability to collect large amounts of experimental data in a timely and cost-effective manner represented, until recently, a top priority, a different challenge is currently taking shape. Now ...

How can we understand all the interactions between DNA, mRNA and proteins, as part of one entire network? Recently, scientists have made major steps towards answering this question. This approach has ...

“Invoking terraforming adds explanatory complexity without constraint,” said Robert G. Endres, a systems biologist at Imperial College London. But in his new research, he refuses to rule out the ...

Ever better experimental techniques allow us to perform experiments under tightly controlled conditions and can deliver gigantic amounts of data reflecting the complexity of biology. This has vastly ...

Longevity science may be entering a conceptual turning point. Instead of searching for a single “anti-aging” intervention, ...

Right now, the debate about consciousness often feels frozen between two entrenched positions. On one side sits computational functionalism, which treats cognition as something you can fully explain ...