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

When it comes to teaching biology, however, how do we explain microscopic processes like viral infections to students in the ...

The COVID-19 pandemic led to heightened public interest in learning about viruses and how they can cause diseases. There has ...

It’s not just the cold and Christmas cookies. Here’s the biology of why winter makes people sleepier, hungrier, and even ...

Nov. 11, 2024 — Some chromosomes, such as B chromosomes, can increase their inheritance rate to their own advantage. These extra chromosomes are found in many plants, animals, and fungi and rely ...

Membraneless organelles, also called biomolecular condensates, are changing how scientists think about protein chemistry, ...

Nov. 4, 2024 — A research team has discovered two remarkable species of bacteria in the tissue of two deep-sea corals from the Gulf of Mexico. These previously unknown symbionts of the corals ...

AlphaFold 3 can predict protein structures and interactions, and now researchers around the world can use it freely.

People have long projected stories onto the poignant casts of Pompeii’s victims. A new study uses ancient DNA analysis to ...

A healthy oral microbiome, a community of microorganisms live in the mouth, plays an important role in aiding in the ...

In a "groundbreaking achievement," a clone of an endangered species of ferret has given birth to babies for the very first ...

Transformative technologies that drive growth and jobs will benefit from new investment by the government’s national research ...