Biology News Stories

一个gene that adds two years to your appearance has been documented by scientists studying people in the Netherlands and...

Microscopic beads coated with part of the outer shell of human eggs could act as both a contraceptive and fertility...

One half of the human brain remains on alert the first time you sleep in unfamiliar surroundings...

The male hormone testosterone causes arteries to harden, explaining why heart disease is more prevalent among men...

Vegetarianism may the best option for feeding the growing global population if we're to avoid widespread...

If you go down in the woods today, you might catch a clutch of trees sharing a carbon picnic...

Researchers have found that pregnant women would be prepared to take part in a gene therapy trial for the condition...

Bacteria that can degrade PET, one of the most commonly used forms of plastic, have been identified by Japanese...

一个genetic analysis of Australian aborigines confirms when their earliest ancestors first arrived on the Antipodean...

一个map charting the ecosystems most vulnerable to a changing climate has been produced by scientists in Norway.

一个technique to reprogramme immune cells to wipe out cancer has been tested successfully by scientists in America.

London-based researchers have received permission to edit the genomes of human embryos for research purposes.

一个public health emergency has been declared this week by The World Health Organisation around the outbreak of Zika...

Seagrasses, which evolved on land and have since migrated back into the world's oceans, might hold the key to...

What are the limitations to running up a wall like a spider?

一个plant protein used to communicate with friendly soil fungi has been identified by Cambridge University scientists.

一个ttending life drawing classes improves your body image, research has found.

More than 90% of the world's migrating birds are not protected across all of the territories they fly through.

Obesity has a reprogramming effect on a man's sperm DNA, explaining why a tendency to be overweight may run in...

Researchers have linked a brain receptor gene with your ability to stop smoking, but not all of the scientific...

Researchers find compulsive sexual behaviour, more commonly known as sex addiction, is driven by the huge novelty...

可能使ani Magnetism-detecting分子mals to navigate using magnetic fields has been discovered by Chinese...

Scientists have found a new example of how genetics can code for complex courting behaviours

Which reefs are most at risk from climate change? Some reef communities are composed of many species already at their...