Biology

Vitamin D, one of the most extensively studied micronutrients in human medicine, has long been associated with bone health, immune...

In a discovery that offers one of the clearest snapshots yet of sex chromosomes caught in the act of being...

Early-life stress may not affect everyone in the same way, and a new study in rats offers some of the...

In a finding that overturns a long-standing assumption about who the clever ones are in a bumblebee colony, researchers at...

Pancreatic cancer has long been one of the most formidable opponents in oncology, and a substantial part of its lethality...

The vast, unbroken forests of Siberia—among the last great wildernesses on Earth—are being quietly carved apart by roads. According to...

In the largest genetic investigation of its kind to date, an international team of researchers has mapped the genetic architecture...

When the immune system battles a persistent viral infection, its most important foot soldiers—CD8+ T cells—face a fate decision within...

For decades, molecular biologists have treated the DNA-binding preferences of transcription factors as one of the more settled chapters of...

Genome-wide maps of chromatin interactions have transformed our understanding of how the genetic blueprint is organized inside the cell nucleus,...