A new platform developed at Scripps Research enables fast, scalable protein evolution. This potentially opens the door to new therapies and diagnostics. In addition, the technology may aid scientists ...

Under microscopes, scientists found that giant single-cell organisms were able to vacuum up more food when they are stuck together. By Jack Tamisiea For a creature made up of only a single cell, the ...

Arvind Pillai, Ph.D., from the University of Washington, and Friederike Benning, Ph.D., from Harvard University/Massachusetts General Hospital, will join the Institute in Fall 2025 KANSAS CITY, Mo., ...

With terrifyingly sharp teeth arranged around a circular mouth, lampreys look about as primitive a vertebrate as you could imagine. But a new study finds that the animals have a surprising similarity ...

This new system enabled the team to measure the competing dynamics of active shrinking and a process that influences cellular self-assembly, called diffusion. Taking a mixture of motors and filaments, ...