Biology

The biting midges that transmit some of Europe’s most damaging livestock viruses do not simply vanish when winter arrives, according...

The human gut is home to trillions of viruses, a sprawling community known as the virome, and yet it remains...

Human adenovirus, one of the most important viral causes of childhood respiratory illness worldwide, has been mapped in unprecedented clinical...

The world’s glaciers are often imagined as frozen deserts, lifeless expanses of snow and ice too harsh to sustain anything...

In a study that could reshape how scientists think about the invisible architects of body fat, researchers in China have...

In a finding that could reshape how scientists think about repairing the damaged human heart, researchers at the University of...

In a discovery that is already rippling across the cancer research community, scientists in China have found that a common...

Pleural infection—one of the most feared infectious complications in thoracic medicine—has long been treated as a single clinical entity, managed...

Metagenomics has transformed the study of microbial communities by allowing scientists to sequence the collective genetic material of entire ecosystems,...

In the warm, productive waters of the southeastern Gulf of California, two species of spiny lobster support a fishery that...

In a finding that could reshape how scientists think about everyday plant-based foods and brain health, researchers in South Korea...

Pseudomonas aeruginosa has long been regarded as one of the most formidable opponents in modern medicine, a Gram-negative bacterium capable...

Obesity has long been recognized as one of the most powerful drivers of high blood pressure, but the molecular events...

The echoes of a tadpole’s early life can reverberate through a frog’s entire existence, but new research suggests those echoes...

Adolescence has long been recognized as one of the most sensitive windows in brain development, a period when social experiences...

Zebra finches, the tiny Australian songbirds whose courtship melodies have long served as a model system for studying vocal learning,...

The Asian longhorned tick, Haemaphysalis longicornis, has long posed a puzzle to evolutionary biologists and public health officials alike. Unlike...

In a discovery that reshapes how biologists think about cellular quality control, researchers have identified an entirely new mechanism by...

In one of the largest analyses of tumor genetics ever assembled, an international team of researchers has shown that the...

When a virus invades the lungs, the immune system mounts a noisy, visible battle: fever, inflammation, floods of white blood...