26+ min ago   (707+ words) Detecting dangerous bacteria in a patient’s sample can take hours or even days, and the fastest molecular tests demand expensive laboratory infrastructure and highly trained staff....

5+ hour, 22+ min ago   (680+ words) Natural killer cells have long been celebrated as the swift, unsung assassins of the immune system, capable of detecting and destroying tumor cells without the elaborate priming that T cells require....

9+ hour, 39+ min ago   (671+ words) When the tide recedes from a rocky Mediterranean shore, the mussels clinging to the stones simply close their shells and wait. Inside those shells, oxygen levels plummet, carbon dioxide accumulates, and the entire body shifts into a biochemical holding pattern…...

10+ hour, 36+ min ago   (334+ words) Given the right conditions, certain types of cells are able to self-assemble into new lifeforms after the organism they were once part of has died....

20+ hour, 17+ min ago   (620+ words) Home - Environment - A golden coral forest off Costa Rica forced scientists to add an entirely new branch to the tree of life The coral was found by researchers during Schmidt Ocean Institute expeditions in 2019 and 2023. The remotely operated vehicle SuBastian…...

21+ hour, 43+ min ago   (278+ words) University of Rochester researchers have found that a protein long associated with chronic inflammation and aging may also play an important protective role, complicating efforts to target it in therapies for age-related disease. The protein, known as cGAS, can detect…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (350+ words) Many diseases begin with changes that occur at the level of individual cells. Genetic mutations, altered signaling pathways, and abnormal responses to environmental factors can all contribute to disease development. Developing a new medicine involves extensive testing before a potential…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (209+ words) Biology – the study of living things – can admittedly be a little reductive at times....

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (651+ words) Long-lived bats appear to combine powerful immune defenses with unusual strategies for eliminating damaged cells, potentially helping them avoid cancer and disease for decades. Researchers hope these genetic tricks could eventually reveal new ways to protect human health during aging....

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (1294+ words) In the mosses and lichens of the world – the in-between places, where living conditions rapidly fluctuate – lives a tiny animal with an extraordinary survival skill. No, not tardigrades – it's their much weirder housemate, the bdelloid rotifer. Just like tardigrades, bdelloid…...