Biology News Articles

Eggs capable of being fertilised and giving rise to healthy baby mice have been produced in the culture dish using stem...

By combining an existing HIV drug with an antibody, researchers may have found a way to eliminate the need for...

Scientists have developed a gene editing system with the potential to cure the inherited blood disorder sickle cell...

Scientists have successfully extracted proteins preserved for nearly 4 million years in ostrich eggshells.

New research suggests that living forever is off the cards

Bees can get emotional just like humans, a new study has shown...

A fat formerly condemned for its association with heart attacks turns out to be powerfully protective against arterial...

Sonic holograms that shape sound waves into complex patterns to manipulate tiny objects, have been developed by...

A genetic test that can highlight heart attack risk decades before it happens has been unveiled by an international...

Giraffe have long been assumed to be a single species. However, a new genetic study argues that there are in fact four...

A new technique that makes whole rats see-through allows scientists to image intact organs, offering a bigger picture...

How lobsters eat poisonous jellyfish without getting stung.

Researchers think they may have found a "coffee gene".

Growing human noroviruses in the lab.

Birds serenade their incubating eggs to control how their offspring will handle heat.

Many people complain that going on holiday caused them to catch a cold, and now we may know why!

A plant virus spread by aphids renders tomato plants irresistible to bumblebees, which rush in to pollinate them, a...

Living 500 years or more, a species of shark has swum away with the medal for world's longest-lived vertebrate...

Inflammation and a build-up of fibrous tissue in the ovary as it ages is behind the drop in fertility that women...

A genetic change that rendered modern humans resistant to the effects of smoke may explain why we flourished while...

A parasitic plant capable of devastating food crops has met its match with the domestic tomato...

Harnessing the power of fire may have unwittingly led to the evolution of tuberculosis, according to a new study out...

Speedy chewing robot munches on paleodiet to evaluate tooth wear rate.

The greater honeyguide bird has evolved to seek out and cooperate with humans to help them find honey, scientists...