The ancestors of the giant isopod Bathynomus jamesi—a seafloor-dwelling creature that resembles a huge pill bug—acquired the ...

Two everyday lifestyle factors were associated with sharply lower type 2 diabetes risk—even among adults with high genetic ...

New genome analysis suggests the Kent MenB strain picked up DNA from harmless throat bacteria, raising its virulence.

Why a study of 1.14 million people produced opposite headlines from the same paperAt the beginning of September, a paper was ...

For couples who go through in vitro fertilization, few outcomes are as dispiriting as the repeated failure of seemingly ...

Researchers from Tel Aviv University and international partners identified a rare genetic variant that disrupts hearing and ...

Hoarding behavior can stem from a combination of genetic, psychological and neurological factors. Trauma, grief, loss and ...

An Arabian Sea humpback whale breaches following interaction with another whale. Both whales had just been recorded singing ...

Researchers at the Nano Life Science Institute (WPI-NanoLSI) at Kanazawa University have directly visualized how enzymes find ...

Indian mustard, one of the world’s most important oilseed crops, has long frustrated breeders trying to exploit hybrid vigor ...

A team at the Centre de recherche Azrieli du CHU Sainte-Justine has reached a major milestone in understanding a rare and ...

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, the Duncan Neurological Research Institute (Duncan NRI) at Texas Children's ...