According to figures from the World Health Organization, vector-borne diseases account for more than 17% of all infectious ...

To boost crops more efficiently in the future, the evolutionary past may hold key insights. The way that plants process ...

The modern microchip stretches both the limits of physics and credulity. Such is the atomic precision, that a few atoms can ...

As we approach the end of 2024, First Opinion is publishing a series of essays on the state of AI in medicine and biopharma. ...

Could the Doctor from "Doctor Who" exist in real life? From dual hearts to regeneration, we analyze the biology and ...

Top scientists have raised the alarm about the potentially existential threat of “mirror life” — manufactured bacteria that ...

Published online December 12 in the journal Science, a new study offers the first evidence that a single bacterial species—the host of the phage—can maintain a diverse community of competing phage ...

The era of artificial intelligence has already begun and we talk more about its risks than its possibilities. Can we allow ...

In the run-up to Christmas, many of us experience a spike in cortisol, known as the body's stress hormone, due to busy social ...

Research on so-called mirror cells, which defy fundamental properties of living organisms, should be prohibited as too ...

Research from Washington University shows that glioblastoma, a type of brain cancer, has its own internal clock that ...

On December 4, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in United States v Skrmetti to consider whether a Tennessee law that ...