The Iñupiat people of Alaska have long said that bowhead whales live two human lifetimes. That oral knowledge turned out to ...

For decades, lab-grown cells have been studied in materials that don't reflect the softness and flexibility of human tissue.

They live in our houses, drink our water and even sleep in our beds. Cats have become an integral part of many households and ...

Inside the growing scientific quest to understand what creatures with the extraordinary ability to defy the ravages of time can teach us about making human aging better.

A large international study has mapped the genetic landscape of feline cancers for the first time, revealing striking similarities between tumor-driving mutations in cats, humans, and dogs.

Microglia (immune cells) and the RANK protein are essential for triggering puberty and maintaining fertility in the brain.

Most lethal mutations in wild fruit flies are driven by newly transferred jumping genes, not small DNA errors, according to a ...

A team of researchers at VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center has identified a new pathway through which mutations in the tumor suppressor p53 gene—found very frequently in human tumors—hijack DNA ...

Large-scale evolutionary analysis shows most zoonotic viruses emerge without prior adaptation, while passing through a laboratory leaves detectable genetic signatures, offering a new tool to interpret ...

Researchers have devised a new tool for discerning between naturally occurring viral outbreaks and those resulting from lab ...

Human beings have been at the center of ecological change on Earth for thousands of years. But as history shows, no species ...