Cancer doesn’t evolve by pure chaos. Scientists have developed a powerful new method that reveals the hidden rules guiding how cancer cells gain and lose whole chromosomes—massive genetic shifts that ...

A new study suggests humans belong in an elite “league of monogamy,” ranking closer to beavers and meerkats than to ...

A genomic atlas of Nematostella vectensis reveals how primitive animals created multiple cell types millions of years ago, ...

Let’s say it’s 2036, and scientists are working on a new class of drugs. Today, for instance, pharmaceutical companies use ...

It may have fewer than many of the other sciences, but biology does have two dozen or so “rules”—broad generalizations about the behavior or nature and evolution. Now, USC researchers want to add a ...

As genetic engineering technologies such as clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) improve and ...

That’s only one problem. Your immune system also has an adaptive system of specialized immune cells and antibodies that attack and destroy invading microbes. This system remembers what those intruders ...

Nature is full of surprises, but few are as fascinating as hybrid animals, creatures born from crossing two different species ...

CaniCatiCare Inc. (CCC), a pet precision medicine company, has recognized a persistent distance between the pace of ...

Evolution is a continuous, powerful force shaping the natural world around us. As environmental pressures intensify, future animal evolution is likely to produce fascinating and sometimes bizarre new ...

In a new study, researchers at Yale University performed surveillance to understand the current coronaviral landscape of wild and domestic animals in the northeastern United States. They found that ...

The menu lists everything from Sichuan beef to wild turtle – but to secure the real ‘delicacy’, you have to ask. At this ...