Biology

For two decades, neuroscientists have been building ever finer maps of gene activity in the brain, charting which genes switch...

Pancreatic cancer has earned its grim reputation the hard way. Fewer than one in eight patients survives five years beyond...

Long before lupus announces itself with swollen joints and damaged kidneys, long before type 1 diabetes destroys enough insulin-producing cells...

For the first time, scientists have captured the human machinery that imports metabolite carriers into mitochondria in the act of...

Inside every neuron, a molecular housekeeping system works around the clock: it engulfs damaged proteins and worn-out organelles in double-membrane...

Every year, the textile industry drenches billions of kilograms of cotton in synthetic dyes, a process that consumes enormous volumes...

Deep beneath three village hand pumps in Egypt's Nile Delta, an unseen empire of predators is thriving, and almost none...

In a development that could reshape how the pharmaceutical world screens for hazardous drug combinations, researchers have unveiled Mol2Image, a...

Ginseng has sat at the intersection of folklore and pharmacology for more than two thousand years, prized across East Asia...

In 2015, a virus swept through a single Australian river and erased ninety percent of the turtles living in it....