Biology

Bacteria are engaged in a perpetual molecular arms race with bacteriophages, the viruses that infect them. Phages inject genetic material...

Allergic inflammation in the skin may set the stage for life-threatening reactions elsewhere in the body through a previously unrecognized...

Scientists have engineered tobacco and lettuce plants to produce myoglobin—the iron-rich protein responsible for much of meat’s red color and...

Living alongside pumas may seem like a dangerous bargain, but new research suggests that the presence of these large predators...

Dinosaurs are remembered as Earth’s giants: towering sauropods that outweighed dozens of elephants, and predators such as Tyrannosaurus rex that...

Cancer researchers have unveiled one of the most extensive collections of patient-derived tumor models ever assembled, creating a living laboratory...

A new Cochrane review has challenged several long-standing preparation techniques used immediately before embryo transfer in in vitro fertilization, finding...

A bile acid long associated with liver damage may have a much narrower—and potentially useful—side to its biological identity. In...

A comprehensive review published in Genes & Diseases is drawing renewed attention to FOXK2, a transcription factor that may help...

The MYH9 gene is emerging as a critical biological switch at the intersection of cancer progression and inherited disease, according...