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Venkatesan Sundaresan and Imtiyaz Khanday have already moved on to maize, millets. ‘What works with rice is potentially ...

An Instagram post about the last two northern white rhinos references a scenario conservationists have warned us about for ...

Members of a new class of antivirals are being tested in U.S. clinical trials, and one has gained approval in Japan, but how ...

The nonapeptide Oxytocin is a cyclic nine-amino‐acid peptide that has long been studied for its possible roles in ...

A study led by Maria Carmo-Fonseca at GIMM has helped clarify one of the main limitations of lab-grown heart cells, which are ...

Find out which animals live the longest and what clues this gives us for potentially slowing down human aging.

Some plants bend the rules of plant life so far that they barely resemble plants at all. Balanophora is one of them - a ...

Scientists at Duke-NUS Medical School have developed two powerful computational tools that could transform how researchers study the "conversations" between cells inside the body. The tools, called ...

EPFL scientists have identified a molecular pathway that protects cells from lipid oxidation and ferroptosis, a regulated form of cell death involved in aging and several diseases. Our cells ...

"The infection of our body cells is like a dance between virus and cell," suggested Yohei Yamauchi at ETH Zurich. With their new system, the team watched how single flu virus particles move across the ...