Amber Dance for the National Institutes of Health

Cells communicate by sending and receiving chemical signals and researchers are learning how to decipher, create and even hijack these conversations.

Your genes control features inside you body and researchers are trying to use this to help doctors prescribe more effective medications.

Cleaner! Faster! Cheaper! is a rallying cry for chemists working to limit the impact of their work on the environment.

So-called chromosome caps can divide safely only a certain number of times.