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Mathematicians uncover a method to control cellular noise, offering a new way to prevent cancer cells from surviving and ...

Researchers at Stockholm University have made unexpected discoveries regarding a significant, previously unexamined group of bacteria, with some sourced from Swedish lakes.

Nagoya University researchers discovered a gene that actively suppresses food-odor detection in roundworms after reproduction ...

The U.S. health regulator on Friday approved Innoviva's oral antibiotic to treat gonorrhea, a common sexually transmitted infection, offering patients an alternative to an injectable drug that was the ...

Because they rely on hosts for a majority of functions, viruses aren’t considered alive. But entities like this one complicate matters.

The researchers think the pattern they observed in ants reflects a more universal trend in the evolution of societal ...

The origins of consciousness date back about 540 million years ago, when animal bodies became more complex. Feelings like ...