Biology

When surgeons alter the plumbing of the human gut, the chemistry of the blood changes in ways that no single...

Every year, tens of thousands of people across the Asia-Pacific region fall ill with scrub typhus, a potentially fatal febrile...

In the tropical lowlands and river valleys of Papua New Guinea, mosquitoes carry far more than the viruses that worry...

In a development that is drawing attention across the fields of microbiology, ecology, and women's health, researchers at the University...

In a striking demonstration of how the chemical environment of the gut can dictate the fate of both microbes and...

Researchers in India have developed a process that transforms sorghum stalks, an agricultural residue often discarded after grain harvest, into...

In the earliest hours of a sea lamprey embryo's life, something remarkable happens. As its cells divide, vast stretches of...

In the bustling world of an ant colony, not every worker answers the call when a nestmate is in trouble....

In a striking reminder that the humble blood smear still has life in it, laboratory physicians in Southwest China have...

A humble bulb of garlic has long occupied a curious space between folk remedy and pharmacology, and a new study...