Biology

Among 80 participants of the NKF Patient Network, a national US kidney disease registry, 60% were not aware of their kidney...

A phytoplankton almost as old as Earth — about 3 billion years compared to the planet's 4.5 billion years —...

SUE the T. rex is one of the most complete, best-preserved Tyrannosaurus rex specimens ever found. That level of preservation...

As a child, Maria Valero witnessed her diabetic father prick his finger several times a day to draw blood and...

BGI Genomics, in collaboration with Southwest University, the State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, and other partners, has constructed...

Much of the research on scleroderma, a connective tissue disease that causes scarring, or fibrosis, has focused on the increased...

Cell division is fundamental for life, allowing organisms to grow, repair tissues, and reproduce. For a cell to divide, all...

An international team of researchers have sounded new alarm bells about the changing chemistry of the western region of the Arctic Ocean...

Microprocessors in smartphones, computers, and data centers process information by manipulating electrons through solid semiconductors but our brains have a...

At a glance: Credit: Harvard Medical School At a glance:  New findings offer insight into how certain cancers disarm the immune system so...

Cancer Research UK-funded scientists have discovered that cancer cells ‘hijack’ a process used by healthy cells to spread around the...

HOUSTON ― Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have identified a specific gut bacterium involved in...

Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have mapped out the molecular structure of a key part of our...

“It was pretty incredible, actually. The whole brain lit up,” said Anna Andreassen, a PhD candidate at the Norwegian University of...