Biology

A gene linked to the breakdown of blood pigments may help explain why beef from cattle kept in restrictive housing...

Scientific academies are being urged to turn prestige into public service, as a new perspective argues that election to an...

Oxygen deprivation may be rewriting the molecular instructions inside cells far more extensively than conventional RNA sequencing analyses reveal, according...

When the environment changes without warning, survival may depend not only on an animal’s anatomy or physiology, but also on...

A new study has introduced a molecular reporter designed to show, in real time, how human cells detect DNA damage...

Europe’s most familiar birds and butterflies may continue to disappear from the landscape even if governments achieve major conservation goals,...

A new artificial-intelligence-based approach could make one of genetics’ most difficult problems substantially easier: determining which single-letter changes in DNA...

Cancer immunotherapy has gained a hybrid new contender: a living cell engineered by fusing two immune-system specialists into one tumor-hunting...

Seeing a brain think in real time has long been one of neuroscience’s most ambitious goals. A new study reported...

A molecular motor that hauls cargo through the interior of cells appears to advance in a surprisingly intricate rhythm: each...