Biology

A new study is challenging one of the most persistent assumptions about the evolution of the primate brain: that our...

RIKEN researchers in Japan have uncovered an unexpected way that fruit-fly gut cells respond to nutrition: they appear to sense...

A molecular switch hidden in RNA is emerging as a crucial link between environmental pollution, brain development and neurodegenerative disease,...

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a platform that could transform the way...

Penn State researchers have created a synthetic mimic of a natural oxygen-activating enzyme, demonstrating a reaction that reshapes stable aromatic...

A rare epithelial cell known as the tuft cell may be far more important in cancer biology than previously thought....

An embryo’s first great decision is directional: which end will become the head, and which will become the tail? In...

Scientists from Aberystwyth University are joining a major conservation project aimed at protecting some of Britain’s rarest orchard species, combining...

Scientists have produced the first complete, end-to-end genome sequence of the common marmoset, creating a high-resolution genetic reference for one...

After ovulation, an egg begins a carefully timed journey through the oviduct, also known as the Fallopian tube, toward the...