Biology

Deep in the cattle country of Papua New Guinea, researchers set out to answer a deceptively simple question: is one...

Deep in the root zone of safflower plants growing in a tobacco rotation field in China's Yunnan Province, researchers have...

One of the most feared complications of severe infection — the sudden collapse of kidney function known as acute kidney...

Few organisms on Earth enjoy the celebrity status of tardigrades. The eight-legged microscopic animals better known as water bears can...

Glioblastoma does not choose its victims by sex, but a striking new study suggests it may wage its war on...

Beneath every square centimeter of the human small intestine lies a hidden scaffold of cells that has quietly governed one...

One of the oldest puzzles in evolutionary biology has just received what may be its most complete genomic answer: why...

For two decades, neuroscientists have been building ever finer maps of gene activity in the brain, charting which genes switch...

Pancreatic cancer has earned its grim reputation the hard way. Fewer than one in eight patients survives five years beyond...

Long before lupus announces itself with swollen joints and damaged kidneys, long before type 1 diabetes destroys enough insulin-producing cells...