Meet the jumbo phage. Scientists believe they’ve cracked the code on how its ‘secret handshakes’ act as a shield against the ...

Lakes, natural and man-made, provide water, food and habitats for wildlife, and also support local economies. Around the ...

A team led by University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health geneticists has shown, for the first time, that a gene "silencer" that resides in junk DNA is directly sparing people from a devastating ...

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), hundreds of millions of new cases of bacterial sexually transmitted ...

A study of nematodes by researchers at Nagoya University in Japan has found that aging-related decline in brain function is caused by the excessive activation of certain neurons over time, rather than ...

What makes the human brain unique? A Yale study unlocks new insights into genetic changes that shaped our evolution.