Microorganisms—bacteria, viruses and other tiny life forms—may drive biological variation in visible life as much, if not ...

Microbes profoundly impact evolution, shaping traits alongside genes. Holobiont biology highlights how hosts and microbes ...

Agentic AI has the potential to reshape not just healthcare, but the very foundations of biological research. By allowing ...

What species will become the next rulers of Earth when humans are no longer dominant? Which creatures might inherit the ...

WOKE university chiefs have warned biology students they may be upset by graphic images of the human body. A life sciences ...

Genes contain instructions for making proteins, and a central dogma of biology is that this information flows from DNA to RNA to proteins. But only two percent of the human genome actually encodes ...

Gene mutations have consequences both good and bad—from resistance to conditions like diabetes to susceptibility to certain ...

The rod-shaped tuberculosis (TB) bacterium, which the World Health Organization has once again ranked as the top infectious disease killer globally, is the first single-celled organism ever observed ...

"Harmonizing the Pulse of Life: Pioneering Circadian Insights for Human and Ecosystem Health at UC San Diego" furthers research on circadian biology and ecosystem health. The Nieh and Smarr labs will ...

Biology students are being warned that they might see upsetting images of the human body in trigger warnings introduced by a ...

Scientists are reimagining the food system, turning to fungal fermentation as a sustainable method for transforming food ...

A breakthrough tool called Helicase-Assisted Continuous Editing (HACE) allows scientists to create precise genetic mutations ...