MetaGraph compresses vast data archives into a search engine for scientists, opening up new frontiers of biological discovery ...

EMBL researchers created SDR-seq, a next-generation tool that decodes both DNA and RNA from the same cell. It finally opens ...

For many decades, textbooks taught that hippos vanished from the center of Europe upon the onset of the Ice Age. However, a ...

Biological rhythms aren't just for sleep. In the tiny worm C. elegans, researchers in the Grosshans lab and the Computational ...

What naked mole-rats lack in the looks department they make up for it in longevity, living healthily for nearly four decades.

Over a few million years, the spider Dysdera tilosensis—a species endemic to the Canary Islands—has reduced the size of its ...

A person who develops age-related diseases earlier in life, or has other biological changes associated with aging (such as ...

In a groundbreaking study, scientists have discovered more than 100 new human viruses in 252 different gut microbes, ...

Scientists found that childhood trauma can change DNA and brain development, leaving long-term biological marks.

Kenneth J. Breslauer, whose work helped lay the foundation for many of today’s major advances in genetics and precision ...

Scientists are researching ways to genetically modify plants and animals to be more resistant to threats like climate change.

Unusual preservative in specimen jars proved to be a sweet solution for studying changes in genetic diversity among fish ...