Randomness inside cells can decide whether a cancer returns after chemotherapy or whether an infection survives antibiotics.

Why does cancer sometimes recur after chemotherapy? Why do some bacteria survive antibiotic treatment? In many cases, the answer appears to lie not in genetic differences, but in biological noise - ...

Cancer therapy and synthetic biology are converging around a shared problem that has long frustrated oncologists and ...

Biologists have long treated the cell as a chemical factory, but a new wave of research is forcing a rethink of that familiar ...

Biology has always been an unruly science. Cells divide when they want to. Genes switch on and off like temperamental lights.