Mounting evidence from research on nematodes to mice indicate that a father's environment, such as what he eats or if he is ...

In a new study, we and an international team of scientists examined the behavior of marine viruses in a large band of ...

Newly published interdisciplinary research led by the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and University of Maryland shows ...

The CRISPR “gene scissors” have become an important basis for genome-editing technologies in many fields, ranging from biology and medicine to agriculture and industry. A team from the Helmholtz ...

Biologists are confronting a problem they thought they had mostly solved: what, exactly, counts as life. A wave of ...

Innovative research into the gene-editing tool targets influenza’s ability to replicate—stopping it in its tracks.

Biologists are quietly rewriting what it means to be alive, and the human body has become one of their strangest frontiers.

BEIJING -- This year's Nobel Prize results signify that artificial intelligence (AI) technology is not only leading trends in computer science, but also has a growing impact in disciplines such as ...

Researchers at the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP) in Brazil have discovered that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, uses a sophisticated tactic to evade the human body's defense ...

It was 2012 when Love Dalén, a paleogeneticist at Stockholm University, first laid eyes upon a special specimen on a lab table in eastern Siberia. "Our Russian collaborators said, 'Come here into this ...

Some 39,000 years ago, a woolly mammoth died in present-day Siberia, destined to be blanketed by ice and permafrost that would end up preserving its body — even down to the hair and muscle. Now, that ...

This story was originally published in 2022; it has since been updated. It started with a tickle in your throat. Then, it evolved into congestion, and maybe a little cough. Perhaps you lost your voice ...