Biology

In a comprehensive review published in Plant Molecular Biology, researchers Parinita Majumdar and Maitrayee DasGupta of the University of Calcutta...

Two hospitalised patients in obstetrics and gynaecology departments in northeastern Algeria, recovering from post-operative wound infections, turned out to be...

Sturgeons are among the oldest surviving lineages of bony fish on Earth, having first appeared roughly 200 million years ago...

For decades, intensive care units have been battlegrounds against some of medicine's most formidable adversaries: bacteria that shrug off nearly...

Pancreatic cancer has long been one of medicine's most stubborn adversaries, a disease so aggressive and so difficult to detect...

Orf virus, the cause of a highly contagious skin disease in sheep and goats, has been genetically mapped for the...

Every year, billions of plastic fragments drift through the world's lakes, rivers, and oceans, and each one of them carries...

The biting midges that transmit some of Europe's most damaging livestock viruses do not simply vanish when winter arrives, according...

Human adenovirus, one of the most important viral causes of childhood respiratory illness worldwide, has been mapped in unprecedented clinical...

The world's glaciers are often imagined as frozen deserts, lifeless expanses of snow and ice too harsh to sustain anything...