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.

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 ...

eLife is a non-profit organisation inspired by research funders and led by scientists. Our mission is to help scientists accelerate discovery by operating a platform for research communication that ...

eLife is a non-profit organisation inspired by research funders and led by scientists. Our mission is to help scientists accelerate discovery by operating a platform for research communication that ...

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 ...

As well as being essential in the precise packaging of DNA into the space of the nucleus, histone proteins are also the site ...

Karlee Campbell, 30, returned to her alma mater South Beauregard High School to give back and teach. She attended South ...

Learn about our program offerings at the undergraduate level: Bachelor of Arts in Biology, Bachelor of Science in Biology, and Minor in Biology. Also see information about the Accelerated Master's ...

Marine biology is the study of life in the oceans and brackish waters, which ranges from archaea and bacteria to marine mammals, and includes organisms such as corals that affect the shape of the ...