The Anopheles stephensi mosquito is a known vector for malaria. (Jim Gathany/CDC/public domain) Malaria killed about 610,000 people globally in 2024, with most deaths occurring in Africa, where young ...

Research suggests that consciousness could extend far beyond just humans—every cellular creature in the universe, no matter how big or small, could be conscious, too. Studies show that single-cell ...

The story of life’s beginnings gets stranger when you look closely at viruses. These tiny entities seem to sit at the edge of biology.

Cancers emerge from many different paths. One path begins early, in embryonic development, when a protein complex called PRC2 ...

Every second, hundreds to thousands of molecules move through thousands of nuclear pores in each of your cells. A new high-definition view reveals the machine in action.

Professor Sir Mike Ferguson, one of Scotland’s pre-eminent scientists, was recognised for his outstanding research career when he received a Lifetime Achievement Award during a night of celebration ...

Scientists have developed Evo 2, a powerful AI model that can analyze and generate DNA sequences across all domains of life.

Did you know that things that glow in the dark are called 'phosphorescent materials'? These absorb light energy and release ...

Researchers discovered that a small region of the PRC2 protein complex acts as a functional switch controlling gene silencing. Removing this domain stopped cancer cell growth, highlighting a potential ...

In Michigan Tech's biology teaching lab, undergraduate students research potential cancer cures with help from the humble worm.

There is so much information about the world and life itself out there that it’s almost unfathomable. And every now and then, you will learn new information that will blow your mind into a thousand ...

The expression of many eukaryotic genes is regulated at the level of translation initiation. The first step in the initiation process is binding of the small ribosomal subunit (40S) to the mRNA. Since ...