One of the biggest quests in biology is understanding how every cell in an animal's body carries an identical genome yet ...

Scientists at Duke-NUS Medical School have developed two powerful computational tools that could transform how researchers ...

According to Japanese scientists, certain bacteria found in the digestive systems of frogs and lizards can completely ...

Your liver cells are forgetting how to do their jobs under dietary stress. Here's how that signals cancer risk years before ...

Our circadian cycle doesn’t just affect our sleeping and waking, but our motivations, mood, behaviour and alertness. Whether you are a lark or an owl, here’s how to recognise your own rhythm ...

Organoids are bits of neural tissue that model human brain development. Their use in science makes some uneasy, in part because the brain is so closely tied to our sense of self.

Seals give birth only when conditions are right. After mating, a female seal can delay implantation of the embryo in the ...

Professor Yohan Kim of Sungkyunkwan University and the Max Planck Institute research team recreated the structure and ...

The process behind embryonic diapause could explain how cancer cells can survive long periods of metabolic stress.

Tears seem simple, but the tiny glands that produce them are among the least understood organs in the human body. By growing ...

Researchers have developed a new way to decipher the language of the brain by listening to and recording the fastest and ...