Biology

For years, epigenetic clocks have promised to reveal whether a person is aging faster or slower than the calendar suggests....

A wound that heals imperfectly leaves a scar. In the genome, the equivalent scar is a mutation: a permanent alteration...

An international team of researchers has reconstructed how the body sizes of Europe’s ancient carnivorous mammals changed during the Paleogene,...

For decades, scientists have known that two unusual classes of antibiotics can shut down RNA polymerase, the molecular machine responsible...

The membrane surrounding the human brain is easy to overlook until it is damaged. Known as the dura mater, this...

A small number of unusually adventurous ospreys may hold the key to restoring the species across Europe, according to a...

A multi-pronged treatment strategy combining broadly neutralizing antibodies, antiretroviral therapy and a drug that blocks the HIV coreceptor CCR5 has...

Fungi may be among the oldest living organisms on Earth, yet scientists still cannot answer one of the simplest questions...

For more than three decades, researchers at the University of California, Riverside, have been testing a deceptively simple question: can...

Bacteriophages, the viruses that infect bacteria, are often portrayed as highly specialized molecular machines: particles that recognize a host, inject...