Biology

The vast, unbroken forests of Siberia—among the last great wildernesses on Earth—are being quietly carved apart by roads. According to...

Pancreatic cancer has long been one of the most formidable opponents in oncology, and a substantial part of its lethality...

When the immune system battles a persistent viral infection, its most important foot soldiers—CD8+ T cells—face a fate decision within...

For decades, molecular biologists have treated the DNA-binding preferences of transcription factors as one of the more settled chapters of...

Genome-wide maps of chromatin interactions have transformed our understanding of how the genetic blueprint is organized inside the cell nucleus,...

A team of computer scientists in Xi’an, China, has developed a deep learning model that predicts which microRNAs are linked...

When a stroke patient finally reaches the hospital and blood flow is restored to the brain, the danger is not...

In a discovery that is already circulating widely among developmental biologists and poultry scientists, a research team at Westlake University...

In the eucalypt woodlands of Belair National Park in South Australia, wild koalas are quietly carrying a molecular hallmark of...

In a comprehensive review published in Plant Molecular Biology, researchers Parinita Majumdar and Maitrayee DasGupta of the University of Calcutta...

In a finding that could reshape how oncologists protect the heart during some of the most widely used chemotherapy in...

Nipah virus, one of the deadliest pathogens known to infect humans, may soon be detectable outside high-containment laboratories thanks to...

Lampreys are among the strangest success stories in the animal kingdom. These jawless, eel-like fish have patrolled the world’s rivers...

Two hospitalised patients in obstetrics and gynaecology departments in northeastern Algeria, recovering from post-operative wound infections, turned out to be...

Sturgeons are among the oldest surviving lineages of bony fish on Earth, having first appeared roughly 200 million years ago...

For decades, intensive care units have been battlegrounds against some of medicine’s most formidable adversaries: bacteria that shrug off nearly...

Pancreatic cancer has long been one of medicine’s most stubborn adversaries, a disease so aggressive and so difficult to detect...

Orf virus, the cause of a highly contagious skin disease in sheep and goats, has been genetically mapped for the...

Every year, billions of plastic fragments drift through the world’s lakes, rivers, and oceans, and each one of them carries...

Banana farming leaves behind a mountain of waste that most of the world never sees. For every tonne of fruit...