Biology

Tiny genes have long been dismissed as genomic noise, too short to matter and too difficult to detect to bother...

A team of computational geneticists and epidemiologists has unveiled a cloud-based workflow that promises to strip away one of the...

Microplastics have become one of the most ubiquitous contaminants on Earth, and a new study suggests that in the world's...

The global crisis of antimicrobial resistance has reached a critical inflection point, claiming nearly 1.27 million lives annually and threatening...

In a discovery that could reshape how scientists think about cancer immunosurveillance, researchers have uncovered striking abnormalities in the long...

The human gut is not a passive highway for the trillions of microbes that live there. It is coated in...

Deep inside plant genomes lies a family of small proteins so structurally rigid that they survive boiling, so chemically versatile...

In the steep, rain-fed hills of northern India, a humble legume has sustained farming families for centuries, thriving where other...

The invisible world of bacteria, fungi, and other microorganisms living in the soil around plant roots may hold one of...

Generative artificial intelligence has swept through higher education faster than almost any technology before it, and universities in Australia and...