For generations, biology textbooks treated life and death as a clean binary: an organism was either functioning or finished. A wave of recent research now argues that this picture is far too simple, ...

Scientists are dismantling the old binary of alive versus dead, revealing a surprising middle ground where cells from dead bodies can reorganize, communicate and even gain new abilities. Instead of ...

The biological cycle of our existence seems relatively straightforward: we’re born, we live, we die. The end. But when you examine existence at the cellular level, things get a bit more interesting.