Dolphin study links strong male friendships to slower biological aging. Research tracked 38 dolphins using DNA to measure ...

An apparent case of accidental domestication, these bears developed calmer temperaments over millennia. In A Nutshell Italy’s ...

A paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution, reports that Italian bears living in areas with many villages evolved and became ...

Researchers at the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institutet have captured the first detailed molecular ...

A research team led by Prof. Xu Zhiheng from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of the Chinese Academy of ...

Human blood already comes in a bewildering variety of types, but researchers have now identified a new one so rare that only ...

Imagine you got a rough night of sleep. Perhaps you went to bed too late, needed to wake up early or still felt tired when ...

A shift in a single brain protein can reshape how cues turn into habits, opening new possibilities for treating addiction and neurological disorders.

Scientists have uncovered how a molecule called spermine, naturally produced by the body, helps cells neutralize toxic ...

Apoptosis is characterized by a series of dramatic perturbations to the cellular architecture that contribute not only to cell death, but also prepare cells for removal by phagocytes. Apoptotic cell ...

Giant tortoises are some of the long-lived species on the planet. Here’s what biologists now understand about one of nature’s ...