The puffer fish is poisonous, but not venomous, while a rattlesnake is venomous but not poisonous. Both can kill you with ...

With support from the National Institutes of Health, the COBRE Center for RNA Biology in Health and Disease will create a ...

The researchers demonstrated the effectiveness of their mimic polypeptides on several real-world test cases, including ice cream and the anti-cancer drug Trastuzumab. The former was successfully ...

New work shows that physical folding of the genome to control genes located far away may have been an early evolutionary ...

Over the past decade, experts in the field of nanotechnology and materials science have been trying to devise architectures ...

Despite rapid advances in reading the genetic code of living organisms, scientists still face a major challenge today—knowing ...

Microbes essential for human health can survive the extreme forces of space launch, reveals new research. The world-first ...

APF-80, enables the crystalline sponge method to capture and analyze nucleophilic compounds. Alkaloids, a diverse group of ...

Viruses are so simple in their structure, they may not even qualify as living things. Yet, they are ruthless in their robotic ...

New research published in Nature Ecology & Evolution sheds light on the timelines and pathways of evolution of fungi, finding ...

The research is opening new frontiers in pest control and evolutionary biology. An international group of scientists has uncovered a strange tubular structure within Profftella, a bacterium that lives ...

For the first time, scientists have directly measured “ultraweak” photon emissions from living organisms. In rats this glow fades rapidly after death. In plants it brightens under stress. In the ...