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 - ...

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

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

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

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