Biology News Stories

Everyone loves catching some ZZZs. For some of us, sleep is not always restful, and for scientists, it’s still a bit of...

From the noses of West Africans, South Asians, East Asians, and Northern Europeans, new research has found populations...

Male flies with faulty Shriveled are infertile, and also have testes that shrink and shrivel with age.

Scientists have constructed artificial chromosomes capable of genetically “booting up” and running in cultured cells.

Many of us are probably all too familiar with the looming dread that comes with the morning after a night of drinking....

Bumblebees have been trained to roll a ball into a “goal” in reward for sugar-water. They were able to pick up the...

Scientists have discovered that the sea may have its own pollution solution in the shape of seagrasses, which come with...

It’s time for our Gene of the Month, and to celebrate Valentine’s day we’ve picked the most romantic molecule we could...

Fourteen new developmental disorders have been discovered by a team led by researchers at the Wellcome Trust Sanger...

Doctors have successfully treated two baby girls with cancer using gene-edited immune cells.

An international collaboration of researchers has discovered 83 new genetic variations linked to human height.

For centuries, people have wondered what happens to us after we die. While the question will likely remain one of the...

The Incas called it the "mother grain" while middle class residents of Cambridge and Canberra call it lunch....

A type of fossil less than a millimetre long and believed originally to be impossible to find, has been unexpectedly...

A chemical found in sharks can block the process that leads to Parkinson's Disease, scientists at Cambridge...

A new study suggests retroviruses are hundreds of millions of years older than previously thought

Our gene of the month has a tale behind it.

A weakened strain of malaria can safely be injected into susceptible humans to produce protective antibodies.

Two new sets of footprints, left by an ancient human relative over three and a half million years ago, have been...

Pandas are highly sensitive to the scales of their habitats, and some regions earmarked for conservation are...

Gene therapy for a fatal inherited paralysing disease called spinal muscular atrophy, SMA, that strikes in infancy has...

Cambridge scientists have developed a technique to turn skin into blood vessel muscle cells to uncover new treatments...

The microbes in our gut turn our genes on and off - and the healthier we eat, the more they do so, a new study finds.

Scientists from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute have found that the ancestors of chimps and bonobos got up to...