Cephalopods may have the oldest sex chromosomes of any animal, according to a new discovery in the octopus genome.

A major medical journal has established a team to address global disease and climate crises, to be led by a UC San Diego ...

When Charlize Zmuda’s car wasn’t in the driveway of her family’s Bribie Island home, her father Steve just assumed the ...

Why do we crave cookies? When we're sad, when we're celebrating, when we're bored. There are scientific reasons we reach for our favorite baked goods this time of year.

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Synthetic biologists from Yale were able to re-write the genetic code of an organism—a novel genomically recoded organism ...

New research has investigated the mechanism by which bivalency functions to poise genes for expression during cell differentiation, providing insight into a long-standing paradigm in the regulation of ...

Feb. 7, 2025 — Researchers have analyzed the soft tissue from a fossilized plesiosaur for the first time. The results show that the long-necked marine reptile had both smooth and scaly skin ...

Clinician-scientist Heike Bischoff-Ferrari and geroscientist Steve Horvath take omega-3 and vitamin D supplements every day to prevent ageing-related health issues. “I do this every morning with ...

Proteins are the workhorses that keep our cells running, and there are many thousands of types of proteins in our cells, each performing a specialized function. Researchers have long known that the ...

Those attending the fifth meeting of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee for a global plastics treaty (see Nature https://doi.org/n2b3; 2024) failed to reach ...