Biology

A Tick Split Down the Middle Has Been Found in El Salvador for the First Time A cattle tick collected...

The Next Seafood Fraud Detector Could Read a Fish’s DNA—and Its Chemical History A fish fillet may look like a...

As rising temperatures threaten plant growth and agricultural productivity, researchers have identified a molecular editing process that helps Arabidopsis seedlings...

A published correction in International Microbiology has clarified who should be contacted about a study exploring nanoformulated peppermint and rosemary...

A green seaweed found in marine ecosystems may hold a new clue for calming the biological storm behind ulcerative colitis....

A little-known population of intestinal epithelial cells may help explain how the gut balances fluid, electrolytes, acidity and mucus—and how...

Nigerian Poultry Farmers Recognize Bird Flu’s Economic Threat—but Many Underestimate the Risk to Their Own Health Avian influenza is widely...

As salt creeps into agricultural soils, a microscopic alliance from India’s mangrove forests may offer mustard plants a better chance...

France’s spirulina farms are turning a traditionally warm-climate crop into a distinctly temperate form of biotechnology. A survey of 45...

Cells do not become specialized in a single instant. During development, they gradually change their molecular programs, position, shape, polarity...

Two small freshwater fish have learned to sort unfamiliar images into visual categories, offering new evidence that the ability to...

Alzheimer’s disease research is entering a phase in which inherited risk is being measured across populations rather than inferred primarily...

Cancer cells may be exploiting a hidden partnership between gene regulation and cholesterol production, according to a study that identifies...

A study in Nature Ecology & Evolution is drawing attention to a deceptively simple question with major consequences for conservation:...

Peyer’s patches, the immune outposts embedded in the lining of the small intestine, may be more than passive sentinels waiting...

A new research paper introduces a method for watching metabolism at the level of individual cell types without relying on...

G protein-coupled receptors, or GPCRs, sit at the crossroads of biology and medicine. Embedded in cell membranes, these molecular sensors...

Multiple myeloma may be vulnerable to an unexpected form of immune-system engineering: changing the behavior of the macrophages that surround...

A new genomic study of South America’s Sotalia dolphins has revealed how two closely related species began diverging after one...

Drug discovery is getting a new computational assist from an artificial-intelligence model designed to predict how tightly a drug molecule...