Biology

Psychedelics are gaining attention for their therapeutic potential, but concerns about substance-induced psychosis remain.

At the deepest point of the ocean, the pressure of 36,200 feet of seawater is greater than the weight of an elephant on every square inch of your body. How could life possibly survive down there? Learn about the unique biology of comb jellies here!

Scientists discover how an obesity-driven hormone may drive the transition to type 2 diabetes by affecting blood vessel cells’ insulin sensitivity

Imagine if medication could travel directly to the source of your illness and unpleasant side effects could be a thing of the past? This is the intriguing promise of nanoparticles!

A new blood biomarker identifies early risk for one of pregnancy’s most serious complications with 80% accuracy.

Two new research studies perform comprehensive genetic screening in the parasite that causes malaria, identifying genes required for the parasite and drug targets.

A puzzling new study finds that ants possess a higher collective intelligence than humans.

Cancer is one of the world’s deadliest diseases. While traditional treatments focus on killing these diseased cells, research is exploring a new approach: pushing cancer cells to become healthy cells.

A group of researchers at the University of California, Berkeley has mapped out the evolution of Neanderthal DNA over the last 40,000 years

By studying our closest single-celled relatives, scientists find that proteins important for stem cell pluripotency existed before the evolutionary jump to multicellularity.