Biology

For decades, obesity medicines were judged largely by how effectively they reduced appetite. Many could help people lose weight, but...

The New World screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite once responsible for tens of millions of dollars in annual livestock losses in...

The International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) has announced that Lorenz Studer, M.D., has begun his term as president,...

A single ant can trigger a synchronized wave of activity across an entire colony, sending hundreds or even thousands of...

A new three-dimensional look inside sorghum leaves is revealing how crops may be redesigned to use less water without sacrificing...

Melbourne researchers have grown human heart valve-like tissues from pluripotent stem cells, creating what they describe as a world-first laboratory...

Every day, billions of cells in the human body reach the end of their life and are quietly removed by...

Ancient trees are often treated as living time capsules, celebrated for surviving centuries of drought, storms, disease and human disturbance....

Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is being redefined by molecular biology. Once viewed mainly as a disorder of excessive blood-vessel constriction,...

A sweeping genomic analysis of the spurge family has uncovered how heat shock protein 20 genes may help economically important...