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

Research into how a father’s choices — such as diet, exercise, stress, nicotine use — may transfer traits to his children has ...

From the moment an embryo starts to take shape, two-way communication is critical for making sure tissues and organs develop ...

The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.

Scientists identify measurable cellular changes that flag higher cancer risk more than a decade before tumors appear. In A ...

As people age, their immune system function declines. T cell populations become smaller and can't react to pathogens as ...

This article explores how single-cell multiomics and spatial transcriptomics are illuminating early pregnancy, uncovering ...

Scientists have created the first reference brain for the clonal raider ant. They used the tool to make unexpected discoveries, including variation among the individual ant brains that may relate to ...

New data highlight liver-encoded delivery of immune modulators as a strategy to mitigate age-related immune dysfunction.

Cell-sized robots can sense temperature, make decisions, and move autonomously using nanowatts of power—no external control ...

Researchers at MIT and the Broad Institute have found a way to overcome age-related immune system decline by temporarily programming cells in the liver to take over a critical immune system function: ...