Researchers at University of Tsukuba have identified a photophobic response (light avoidance) in the unicellular apusomonad ...

Lurking among them is a “giant” virus, a genetic behemoth that blurs the line between the living and the inanimate. When this ...

New research from the University of St Andrews has discovered that vertebrates make higher numbers of different forms of ...

Viruses attack nearly every living organism on Earth. To do so, they rely on highly specialized proteins that recognize and ...

Improvements in public health have allowed humankind to survive to older ages than ever before, but, for many people, these ...

Influenza presents a global health challenge due to its rapidly changing RNA genome. These mutations can result in serious ...

Akira Toriyama called Cell a 'failure' - but his reason will surprise you. The iconic villain's design took a brutal toll ...

After the roughly 7.5-mile-wide (12 kilometers) asteroid struck off the coast of the Yucatán Peninsula in the Gulf of Mexico, ...

Fossils dating back 773,000 years from Thomas Quarry I in Morocco shed new light on the shared ancestry of Homo sapiens, Neandertals, and Denisovans. An international team of researchers has ...

Artificial intelligence allows tracing the evolution of genetic control elements in the developing mammalian cerebellum.

Like many life sciences outfits undergoing a restructuring, Charles River Laboratories is balancing layoffs and a business ...

Eli Lilly plans to expand its hearing loss therapy pipeline by collaborating with Seamless Therapeutics to apply the company’s next-generation gene-editing approach, based on programmable recombinases ...