Biology

A long-term study of young survivors of aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage has found that the risk of developing a new brain...

Soil bacteria may be far less self-sufficient than scientists have traditionally assumed. A large study of nearly 7,000 bacterial isolates...

A new study in Arabidopsis thaliana has identified the polymerase-associated factor 1 complex, or PAF1C, as a central component of...

A gut bacterium that shortens the lifespan of honeybees may nevertheless help them survive a potentially lethal infection. Researchers have...

Tryptophan, the amino acid best known as a building block for serotonin, may be far more deeply involved in female...

Candida auris, an emerging fungal pathogen responsible for difficult-to-control outbreaks in hospitals worldwide, appears to make a strategic decision before...

For decades, vast stretches of the animal genome were dismissed as genetic “junk”—repetitive DNA sequences that do not encode proteins...

Pregnancy Is a High-Stakes Biological Trial, and Loss Is Its Most Common Outcome Pregnancy is often described as a predictable...

Dengue prevention research has expanded dramatically across the world, yet the evidence most needed by health authorities remains difficult to...

Influenza A virus (IAV) may target the lung’s most vulnerable cells not because they allow the virus to enter more...