Kevin McCain, Ph.D., a philosopher at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, was struck with the same question of understanding life and chose to unravel the answer through a scientific lens. As a ...
In 2016, the National Science Foundation (NSF) established a five-year program on Understanding the Rules of Life (URoL) to identify generalizable rules that govern biological systems at micro and ...
Japanese researchers uncovered a universal rule describing why life’s growth slows despite abundant nutrients. Their “global constraint principle” integrates classic biological laws to show that ...