For centuries, curious observers have been grappling with the question “What is life?” Early naturalists documented observations about the living world long before anyone knew about cells. Their ...

Interrogating the spatial organization of tissue and cells with multiomics is changing biology. “We’re basically going to rewrite the textbooks of almost every piece of the life sciences with this ...

The National Academies will host a webinar to discuss its recent report A Vision for Continental-Scale Biology: Research at Multiple Scales. Dramatic advances in the biological sciences over recent ye ...

An ad hoc committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will conduct a consensus study to identify how biological research at multiple scales can inform the development of ...