Living nearly 900 meters underwater, this isopod evolved unusual adaptations to thrive in the world’s most food-scarce ...

Within every muscle of every living species with a backbone, a protein called myosin tugs on a partner protein to generate a ...

Inside the cell nucleus, genes must be turned on and off with precision to regulate biological processes. The first models of ...

W hen I was first learning to write, my letters and words ran from right to left, reversed as if in a mirror. Being ...

The idea of ‘biological agency’ — that life devises its own goals and behaves accordingly — complicates our understanding of ...

Studies show that people with ADHD are more likely to have unfavourable cholesterol levels, alongside higher rates of obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. A landmark paper published in 2022 ...

An injectable gene therapy that promises to make people live longer will soon become available in certain nations. This is despite the fact that it hasn’t been tested in rigorous clinical trials and ...

Just under 300,000 years from the moment Homo sapiens appeared in Africa, the species had encircled Earth, mastering desolate deserts and frozen wastelands and all the temperate climes in between.

A small fish that lives fast and dies young has given biologists a rare look at one of evolution’s oldest bargains. In the African turquoise killifish, researchers traced that bargain to a single gene ...

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I realize that my op-eds have made some people feel uncomfortable. However, I believe these insights need to be shared to help drive progress. In the last Trenton mayoral election, only about 10,000 ...

Researchers at McGill University have discovered a centuries-old genetic mutation that helps to explain why some French‑Canadians in Quebec are at an elevated risk of pancreatic cancer. Until quite ...