Sci-fi wouldn't be the same without suspended animation aka cryosleep. But how close are we to making this idea a reality?

Danish researchers believe that everyone should monitor their blood folate levels. They argue that a deficiency in folic acid ...

Biologists are confronting a problem they thought they had mostly solved: what, exactly, counts as life. A wave of ...

A research team at the Hebrew University has shown that bacteria can survive antibiotic exposure via two distinct ...

When disturbances occur in the body it creates inflammation which is a known cause of a number of disorders. If the rest of our body cells try to compensate by their feeble efforts to take down the ...

A new CRISPR breakthrough shows scientists can turn genes back on without cutting DNA, by removing chemical tags that act ...

Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk sits in her office, eyes fixed on the computer monitor in front of her. "You see it move its eye," ...

A new study from Bar-Ilan University shows that one of sleep's core functions originated hundreds of millions of years ago in ...

A woman's body has been found to consist of varying proportions of male and female cells because of an extremely rare form of ...

For decades, biology textbooks taught that DNA’s story could be told with a single image: two elegant strands twisting in a ...

A reduced genome in an island species raises evolutionary questions.

Extra chromosomes, found in some fish, contain copied genes that don’t work but can still impact the organism. Research shows ...