Diabetes doesn’t just coexist with heart disease - it actively reshapes the heart’s machinery and the way it makes energy.

Life begins with a single fertilized cell that gradually transforms into a multicellular organism. This process requires ...

Life begins with a single fertilized cell that gradually transforms into a multicellular organism. This process requires precise coordination; otherwise, the embryo could develop serious complications ...

Biologists are confronting a problem they thought they had mostly solved: what, exactly, counts as life. A wave of ...

When a maize plant is attacked by the fungus Ustilago maydis, tumor-like tissue growths occur at the site of infection. How the pathogen causes this response in its host has long been unknown. But a ...

For decades, this question has bewildered biologists. Now, by studying Placozoa, scientists at Stanford University have ...

A global catalog shows how creatures across the tree of life balance rigidity with flexibility in remarkably consistent ways ...

What is mediastinal seminoma? What this rare chest cancer means and how treatment works with high survival rates.

Hidden inside every organ, microscopic fibers form a scaffolding that quietly shapes how we move, think, and heal. For the ...

This valuable study identifies a novel regulator of stress-induced gene quiescence in C. elegans: the multi-Zinc-finger protein ZNF-236. The work provides evidence for an active mechanism that ...