Biology

Alzheimer’s disease research is entering a phase in which inherited risk is being measured across populations rather than inferred primarily...

Peyer’s patches, the immune outposts embedded in the lining of the small intestine, may be more than passive sentinels waiting...

A new research paper introduces a method for watching metabolism at the level of individual cell types without relying on...

G protein-coupled receptors, or GPCRs, sit at the crossroads of biology and medicine. Embedded in cell membranes, these molecular sensors...

Multiple myeloma may be vulnerable to an unexpected form of immune-system engineering: changing the behavior of the macrophages that surround...

A new genomic study of South America’s Sotalia dolphins has revealed how two closely related species began diverging after one...

Drug discovery is getting a new computational assist from an artificial-intelligence model designed to predict how tightly a drug molecule...

Wasps are often portrayed as solitary villains of the picnic table, but inside their bodies they host complex microbial communities...

A new molecular screening strategy could help doctors distinguish human papillomavirus infections that are likely to disappear from those that...

A person’s immune system carries a molecular record of both genetic inheritance and past encounters with the outside world. That...