Biology

Antibiotics are the linchpin of modern medicine: without them, anyone with open wounds or needing to undergo surgery would be...

New study from Hebrew University reveals that marmoset monkeys use specific calls, known as "phee-calls," to name each other, a...

Staphylococcus aureus has the potential to develop durable vancomycin resistance, according to a study published August 28, 2024, in the...

An ancient gene is crucial for the development of the distinctive waist that divides the spider body plan in two,...

Researchers predict that 12.7% of marine teleost fish species are at risk of extinction, up fivefold from the International Union...

Scientists have revealed how a “tag-team” between the oceans and continents millions of years ago devastated marine life – and...

Researchers at the Center for Algorithmic and Robotized Synthesis within the Institute for Basic Science have taken a significant step...

Scientists are on the verge of a cancer breakthrough after working out how the body’s immune system targets cells devastated...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A newly funded U.S. National Science Foundation iBioFoundry at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign will build on...

Designer poodle crossbreed dogs including cavapoos, cockerpoos and labradoodles may be neither more nor less healthy than the purebreeds they...

A team of scientists studying cell division developed a special light microscopy system and used it to analyze the molecular...

Female sea turtles lay their eggs, cover the nest with sand and then return to the ocean, leaving them to...

KANSAS CITY, MO—August 28, 2024—Humans must regulate blood sugar concentrations to stay healthy and to fuel our cells. Too little...

 – Since the end of the last Ice Age, growth of human population was far from uniform, marked instead by periods...