Biology

A molecule released by gut bacteria could help determine whether cancer patients respond to one of modern oncology’s most powerful...

A new review is challenging a widely used way of thinking about occult hepatitis B infection, a form of infection...

A microscopic green alga has demonstrated a powerful strategy for turning uneven light into remarkably consistent growth, a finding that...

A mutation in mitochondrial DNA can disrupt the intestine’s frontline defenses long before the effects of aging become visible, according...

A gene linked to the breakdown of blood pigments may help explain why beef from cattle kept in restrictive housing...

Scientific academies are being urged to turn prestige into public service, as a new perspective argues that election to an...

Oxygen deprivation may be rewriting the molecular instructions inside cells far more extensively than conventional RNA sequencing analyses reveal, according...

When the environment changes without warning, survival may depend not only on an animal’s anatomy or physiology, but also on...

A new study has introduced a molecular reporter designed to show, in real time, how human cells detect DNA damage...

Europe’s most familiar birds and butterflies may continue to disappear from the landscape even if governments achieve major conservation goals,...