Biology

In a striking reminder of how much can hide inside two neighboring letters of the genetic code, researchers in Iran...

Delivering devastating medical diagnoses is among the most emotionally charged tasks in modern healthcare, yet a new study from Turkey...

Breast cancer patients who later suffer heart damage from one of the world's most widely used chemotherapy drugs already carry...

Waterborne parasites circulating silently in rivers and sewage systems may be far more genetically diverse—and far more widespread—than conventional testing...

In a finding that is already rippling through pediatric neurology and infectious disease circles, researchers in Tehran have detected DNA...

In a finding that could reshape how scientists think about gut microbes, methane emissions, and the health of the world's...

Ulcerative colitis has long been framed as a disorder of the gut's bacterial residents, but a new prospective study suggests...

Bacteria that can eat one of the simplest carbon molecules on Earth—formate—and turn it into useful chemicals have long been...

A new artificial intelligence framework that can predict what an enzyme does—without ever being told where its active sites are—has...

The first two years of human life harbor one of the most consequential microbial ecosystems a person will ever carry,...