The National Institutes of Health is vital to research efforts to improve health, but proposed funding cuts for 2026 threaten ...

Drug developers are racing to design molecules that coax our cells into burning more energy even when we are sitting still, ...

Biology-inspired, silicon-based computing may boost AI efficiency; AMP2 instead uses AI to accelerate anaerobic biology.

A newly identified class of RNA molecules has been discovered in bacteria living inside the human body. These circular ...

Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of “The Serviceberry,” offers ideas rooted in nature for creating sharing economies as a way to ...

The familiar fight between “mind as software” and “mind as biology” may be a false choice. This work proposes biological computationalism: the idea that brains compute, but not in the abstract, symbol ...

A new study finds that at least one Archaea has surprisingly flexibility when interpreting genetic code, which goes against a ...

Six months after losing her lab to Iranian missiles, Prof. Yifat Merbl is honored by "Nature" magazine for groundbreaking immune-system research.The post From missile damage to global recognition for ...

Life may have emerged from a surprisingly simple network of chemical reactions long before cells or genes existed.

A combination of two classical biological laws, the global constraint principle delves deeper into complex biological ...

New species of the plants are still being discovered, and their parasitic biology is being probed for potential cancer ...

Scientists have long known that mutations in certain genes affecting microtubules in plants can cause plants to grow in a twisting manner. In most cases, these are “null mutations,” meaning the ...