Biology

A Chicago-area family with a deep commitment to supporting science and medicine is giving $100 million to establish The Duchossois...

Over the past century, the Northeast has experienced an increase in the number of storms with extreme precipitation. A Dartmouth-led...

"I'm strong to the finich, 'cause I eats me spinach!" said Popeye the Sailor Man. While you may not gulp...

(Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan) The identification of 16 additional genetic markers will help researchers get closer to understanding...

Despite many advancements in liver transplantation -- like the cure for the hepatitis C virus -- liver disease continues to...

Credit: (Texas A&M AgriLife Research photo by Kathleen Phillips) COLLEGE STATION -- Researchers have figured out how a once-defeated bacterium...

Credit: Amanda Powers/UC Imagine living in perpetual darkness in an alien world where you have to find food quickly by...

New research by NOAA Fisheries has revealed the opah, or moonfish, as the first fully warm-blooded fish that circulates heated...

A new type of methane-based, oxygen-free life form that can metabolize and reproduce similar to life on Earth has been...

Like the shape-shifting robots of “Transformers” fame, a unique class of proteins in the human body also has the ability...

Newly discovered taste receptors for hydrogen peroxide allow worms to indirectly detect light. Human taste receptors are specialized to distinguish...

A group of researchers of the University of Barcelona (UB) have described a key interaction to understanding growth control in...

When plants come under attack internal alarm bells ring and their defence mechanisms swing into action – and it happens...

Sparks literally fly when a sperm and an egg hit it off. The fertilized mammalian egg releases from its surface...