Imagine you are a kind of fish called a goby, part of a huge family of more than 2,000 species. Maybe you're of average size ...

He showed that specialized cells retain the genes to form an organism.

In 2014, I sat in a room at a “Genetic Networks” conference listening to Brendan Frey present his talk titled Decoding the ...

In the amphibian and reptile range, attendees ran their fingers down the scaly back of a Komodo dragon in a preservation ...

A University of Alberta research team is shedding much-needed light on cancer cachexia, a severe muscle-wasting syndrome linked to up to a third of ...

Nitrous oxide (N2O) is a potent greenhouse gas that both traps heat and destroys ozone, reducing Earth's protection from ...

Study findings suggest using the drug PF-06409577 to restore CDX2 in colon cancers could cut risk of recurrence and death by up to 50%.

Jonathan Henninger, an assistant professor of biological sciences, is part of a growing movement in the life sciences exploring how ribonucleic acid, known as RNA, can be harnessed to develop ...

Ants have evolved an acute sense of smell, which requires each sensory neuron to choose one scent receptor out of hundreds. In a new study published ...

Every day, your brain makes thousands of decisions under uncertainty. Most of the time, you guess right. When you don't, you ...

A new 3D human brain tissue platform developed by MIT researchers is the first to integrate all major brain cell types, ...