Biology
Researchers design a novel, stable human growth factor
Scientists at the University of Arkansas have developed a more stable and biologically active form of human fibroblast growth factor...
uOttawa Study Links Parkinson’s Gene to Potential Defenses Against Deadly Bacterial Infections
A gene mutation most commonly associated with Parkinson’s disease may also help the immune system destroy dangerous bacteria, according to...
Can Past Mass Extinctions Predict Today’s Species Extinction Risks?
A new global analysis of tropical forest mammals is challenging one of conservation science’s most common assumptions: that the traits...
Models Reveal How Social Inequality Shapes Epidemic Spread
Influenza can race through a crowded barracks or prison while circulating far more slowly in the wider population. Ebola may...
Houston biologists win $1 million NSF grant to study evolving mutation rates
A nearly $1 million grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation is launching a four-year investigation into one of evolution’s...
Mussels Show Signs of Fear, Too
For a blue mussel, eating can be a dangerous business. The animal survives by filtering seawater through its body, extracting...
New Delivery Vehicle Advances Next-Generation mRNA Therapeutics
Messenger RNA transformed vaccine science during the COVID-19 pandemic, but its success depended on a delivery system capable of protecting...
New necroferrins strategy simultaneously targets necroptosis and ferroptosis
A new review in Ferroptosis and Oxidative Stress examines whether one class of compounds could suppress two interconnected forms of...
Flowering Plants’ Taxonomic Traits Reveal a Globally Consistent Biogeographic Pattern
Plants may look wildly different from one continent to another, yet a new global analysis suggests that the world’s flowering...
Acoustic Tweezers Reveal Biomolecular Droplet Stiffness
Measuring the mechanics of a fragile biological material without disturbing it has long been a major challenge in biophysics. Now,...
Prior antibodies shape distinct immune responses to influenza vaccination
Influenza vaccination does not produce the same immune response in every person. Although seasonal vaccines are reformulated to match viruses...
New Study Challenges Long-Held Assumption in Cell Biology
A New Look at Coronin Proteins Challenges a Longstanding View of the Cell’s Actin Machinery For decades, coronin proteins have...
Harvard’s George Church to Present at 13th ARDD Meeting in Boston
BOSTON, Massachusetts — August 18, 2026 — George Church, the Harvard geneticist whose work helped define the modern era of...
Deeper crop-residue burial may protect maize from ear rot and mycotoxins
Maize straw is often treated as agricultural waste, yet a three-year field study in Jilin Province, China, suggests that what...
MIT engineers link bacteria to build living transistors
MIT researchers have built what may be the closest biological equivalent yet to a printed circuit board: a network of...
New evolutionary discoveries prompt scientists to rethink human ancestor names and classifications
Recent discoveries in human evolution are forcing scientists to reconsider one of the most familiar names in biology: Homo. A...
Posterior Transosseous S1 Pedicle Approach Reaches Superior Hypogastric Plexus
Chronic pelvic pain affects millions of people and can persist despite medication, physical therapy, nerve stimulation and surgery. A new...
Study identifies IVF patients most likely to use traditional Chinese medicine
CLEVELAND — A new study from University Hospitals Connor Whole Health and the UH Fertility Center has identified the kinds...
Scientists unravel the mystery behind narwhals’ uniquely twisted tusks
For centuries, the narwhal’s long, ivory-colored tusk was treated as evidence of magic. In medieval Europe, these extraordinary teeth were...
Five new Cyprus wasp species discovered, including one named after Aphrodite
Scientists have identified five species of parasitoid wasp previously unknown to science in Cyprus, more than doubling the number of...