Biology

The hypothalamus is a small region of the human brain typically associated with regulating body temperature, hunger, thirst, fatigue, and...

Plants are powerhouses of molecular manufacturing. Over the eons, they have evolved to produce a plethora of small molecules —...

Growing up in neighborhoods with more educational and socioeconomic opportunities has a positive impact on infants’ brain activity, according to...

Engineering proteins for desirable traits has been the holy grail of modern biotechnology. For example, the food industry can benefit...

Researchers at the University of Toronto have developed a deep-learning model, called PepFlow, that can predict all possible shapes of peptides...

Rice University’s Department of Chemistry will soon welcome David Sarlah, who will contribute to the university’s cancer research efforts when...

The last population of woolly mammoths was isolated on Wrangel Island off the coast of Siberia 10,000 years ago, when...

For a billion years, single-celled eukaryotes ruled the planet. Then around 700 million years ago during Snowball Earth — a...

In its first special issue on Biosafety and Biosecurity Considerations of Synthetic Genomics, the first part of a two-part special...

Newly published research from Colorado State University answers fundamental questions about cellular connectivity in the brain that could be useful...