This article summarizes suggestions from several groups that have considered how evolutionary biology can be useful in medicine, what physicians should learn about it, and when and how they should ...

In a series of posts I want to explore the interplay between basic biology, which looks at the natural world to learn about how life works, and synthetic biology, which studies what is not found in ...

Proteins are the doers of biology. In the human body, they perform most of the work in cells and are required for the structure, function and regulation of the body’s tissues and organs. Each protein ...

The Basic Course in Biomedical Research (BCBR), offered by the National Institute of Epidemiology (NIE) under the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), aims to equip medical professionals with ...

Life on Earth used to be simple. Once upon a time, every organism on the planet was a single, simple cell. Scientists call them prokaryotes. They are about as basic as a living thing can be — just ...