The research is opening new frontiers in pest control and evolutionary biology. An international group of scientists has uncovered a strange tubular structure within Profftella, a bacterium that lives ...

When a woman becomes pregnant, the outcome of that pregnancy depends on many things — including a crucial event that happened while she was still growing inside her own mother’s womb.

A brand-new engineering approach to generate "designer" biological robots using human lung cells is underway in Carnegie Mellon University's Ren lab. Referred to as AggreBots, these microscale living ...

It is one of humanity’s ultimate scientific and technological quests, alongside putting a man on the moon and unlocking the ...

Our most plausible creature is the large blood-sucking tick. On Earth, the deer tick Ixodes do swell to the size of a walnut ...

Earlier this year an extraordinary new way of using waste plastic made headlines. A common bacterium was genetically ...

New research from Gauhati University reveals that the light emitted by individual Indian fireflies of the same species can vary, challenging long-held assumptions about their bioluminescent signals.

For millennia, aging has been viewed as an immutable, inevitable decline. However, a scientific revolution is underway, ...