AI is making waves in health care and medicine. Does the technology have the potential for breakthroughs in how we tackle ...

A new Yale study of roundworms, a species with the unique ability to regenerate, reveals that disruptions in the body's ...

The human ability to cook may seem ordinary, but it marks one of the most important evolutionary turning points in our ...

Recent research shows that tumors in different organs host microbial communities capable of influencing cancer biology, ...

August Weismann's germ plasm theory of the late 19th century posited that only germ cells, e.g., sperm and egg cells in ...

The appendix has independently evolved at least 32 times across 361 mammalian species. What makes it an evolutionary darling ...

Why do some species live for only weeks while others survive for centuries? Researchers at the Leibniz Institute on Aging - Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI) in Jena have developed AEGIS, a freely ...

Scientists develop a non-invasive dung test for early pregnancy detection in tigresses, which was extended to detect cattle ...

Scientists have developed a breakthrough “superfood” for honeybees by engineering yeast to produce the essential nutrients normally found in pollen. In controlled trials, colonies fed this specially ...

A new imaging approach is shedding light on one of cell biology’s most elusive questions: how lipids are organized and sorted within membranes.

Micro- and nanofluidic systems are increasingly important in biology, medicine, chemistry, and materials science because they allow researchers to study reactions, transport, and molecular behavior in ...

Take a typical fish out of water and it won’t live long. It gets the oxygen it needs from the water it swims in. In a similar way, scientists are exploring dependency as a method of controlling what ...