Biology

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.

In 79 AD, Mount Vesuvius violently erupted and buried the city of Pompeii under ash, preserving the city and many of the volcano’s victims. In the 1700s, when archaeologists discovered the ruins at Pompeii, they filled empty cavities left by the…

By expanding beyond the normal dictionary, researchers at Scripps University have created a portable system for creating proteins with unnatural amino acids

Even bees need dance lessons! Bees use their “waggle dance” to point each other toward food, and they need lessons to perform it properly.

Using a data set of over 10,000 people with Raynaud syndrome, scientists have identified genes underlying the biology of the cardiovascular condition.

What defines sex determination? Sex-changing fish enrich the picture.