A major study shows complex cells evolved gradually in an oxygen-poor world, challenging long-held assumptions about life’s ...

Detectives often find important clues by digging through rubbish. That approach paid off tremendously for systems biologist ...

This valuable study provides solid evidence for deficits in aversive taste learning and taste coding in a mouse model of autism spectrum disorders. Specifically, the authors found that Shank3 knockout ...

New research from Te Herenga Waka Ph.D. graduate Tirth Vaishnav is exploring how birds' behavior and ecology vary across seasons and in response to both natural and human-driven environmental changes.

The CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices met last week, eliminating the universal recommendation for the birth dose of the hepatitis B vaccine. There was, however, a more insidious threat ...

Funding backs a human-first approach to drug safety and efficacy, reducing reliance on animal testing and accelerating ...

It was thought that complex cells couldn’t survive above a certain temperature, but a tiny amoeba has proven that assumption ...

Scientists have discovered that complex life began evolving much earlier than traditional models suggested. Using an expanded ...

Human sexuality has long been one of the most complicated topics in the field ...

As eukaryotic cells started to form, eukaryotic traits may have emerged in early cells about one billion years before the ...

Surface-bound gels may have offered the structure and chemistry needed for life to take hold on Earth—and possibly elsewhere.

An archaeon reads the same codon in two different ways, overturning a doctrine that has stood for 60 years. Living organisms ...