Biology

A new study is reshaping the way scientists understand how transcription factors find their targets inside the crowded genome. Researchers...

A subtropical tree has revealed how forests may survive a future defined by hotter temperatures, rising atmospheric carbon dioxide and...

Small-sample RNA-sequencing studies often promise a window into the molecular changes that accompany disease, treatment response, or infection. Yet when...

Rainfall is doing more than replenishing water in alpine wetlands: it may be steering the microscopic communities that live around...

The idea that every adult needs exactly eight hours of sleep has become one of modern wellness culture’s most durable...

A new study has revealed that the epigenetic regulator PRC2 performs different, stage-specific jobs during the earliest phases of mammalian...

Tropical forests may be able to return naturally across millions of square kilometres of degraded land, offering a powerful but...

Alzheimer’s disease has long been described through the lens of neurons: the loss of synapses, the accumulation of amyloid-β plaques,...

Regulatory T cells, commonly known as Treg cells, are the immune system’s essential peacekeepers. They suppress excessive immune reactions, limit...

Spatial biology has promised a more complete view of how cells behave inside tissues, but that promise has often come...