A new Dartmouth study opens new avenues for understanding—and potentially manipulating—how cells decide to live or die.

When a cell receives a message from outside, it generates a molecule called cyclic AMP (cAMP) to relay this message. To ...

It was thought that complex cells couldn’t survive above a certain temperature, but a tiny amoeba has proven that assumption ...

The microbe Pyrodictium abyssi is an archaeon—a member of what's known as the third domain of life—and an extremophile. It ...