Biology

Rainfall is doing more than replenishing water in alpine wetlands: it may be steering the microscopic communities that live around...

The idea that every adult needs exactly eight hours of sleep has become one of modern wellness culture’s most durable...

A new study has revealed that the epigenetic regulator PRC2 performs different, stage-specific jobs during the earliest phases of mammalian...

Tropical forests may be able to return naturally across millions of square kilometres of degraded land, offering a powerful but...

Alzheimer’s disease has long been described through the lens of neurons: the loss of synapses, the accumulation of amyloid-β plaques,...

Regulatory T cells, commonly known as Treg cells, are the immune system’s essential peacekeepers. They suppress excessive immune reactions, limit...

Spatial biology has promised a more complete view of how cells behave inside tissues, but that promise has often come...

The nucleus is often portrayed as a fortress, sealed off from the rest of the cell by a protective membrane....

Twenty years after scientists first demonstrated that a mature cell could be pushed backward into a stem-cell-like state, induced pluripotent...

The scientific record surrounding a study on a microbial iron-chelating compound and peanut productivity has been reset after the publication...