Biology News Articles

Lasers simulate asteroid and comet impacts and create the building blocks of DNA - in a lab!

Plastic debris adrift in the Earth's oceans poses a very real threat to both marine life and human health.

"Non-echolocating" bats have been found to actually use a primitive form of echolocation, hinting at the...

New herpes drug stops cold sores from coming back again by stopping gene activation.

Electric eels use remote control to force their prey to disclose themselves...

Man receives nightmarish news from his doctors, when his headaches turn out to be a rare tapeworm living in his brain...

Malaria-spreading mosquitoes have genomes sequenced to find out why they carry the parasite and which species may be...

DNA smeared on the outside of a rocket launched into space survived the flight and re-entry, and may contaminate...

The environment people live in can predict their religious beliefs, says biggest global study of its kind.

People switch on genes with their thoughts using a system developed by Swiss scientists.

Fossil pregnant horse with placenta and unborn foal unearthed by researchers.

Your genes select gut bugs that can keep you slim...

Understanding the human genome takes another step forward.

How the intestines register fullness and tell the brain to stop eating has been uncovered by researchers in the US....

A large group of foreign freshwater species from Turkey and the Ukraine are poised to invade Britain’s waterways.

A new dialysis treatment for drug overdoses is set to speed up the process of more rapidly ridding the body of toxins...

A way to restore the intellectual vigour of youth, and even make blind mice see, has been uncovered by US researchers...

Writing in the journal Cancer Research this month, Spanish researchers have characterised the dog epigenome in...

The cattle genome has gone large, as an international consortium of researchers announces a global database of cow gene...

Bats are well-known carriers of human viruses, such as rabies and the headline-grabbing Ebola. But could they harbour...

The development of a pedometer-like collar for mountain lions gives us an insight into their behaviour and the...

A brain area formerly relegated to controlling only a few functions might underpin the evolution of human intelligence...

Taking inspiration (and also proteins) from mussels and engineering them into bacteria, we can make a super-strong glue...

A promising new therapy for multiple sclerosis, a disease of the nervous system that robs sufferers of their faculties...