1+ week, 21+ hour ago   (104+ words) Variants in a single “master switch” gene called NR5A1 have long been known to disrupt male sexual development, but why one child is severely affected while another with a similar mutation escapes with milder features has remained one of the most…...

2+ week, 20+ hour ago   (1087+ words) Decoding Sumatra’s “King of the River”: First Complete Mitogenome of the Enigmatic Mahseer Traces an Ancient Maternal Line Through Sunken Worlds Deep in the fast-flowing headwaters of northern Sumatra glides a fish that local communities have revered for generations as…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (59+ words) In a discovery that reshapes how biologists think about cellular quality control, researchers have identified an entirely new mechanism by which cells repair their damaged lysosomes. The process, termed budding-type fission, or B-fission, allows a compromised lysosome to bud off…...

4+ hour, 42+ min ago   (84+ words) When forensic investigators recover human remains, one of the first and most fundamental questions they must answer is simple to ask but often difficult to answer: was this person male or female? A new study published in the International Journal…...

1+ week, 20+ hour ago   (86+ words) In a discovery that offers one of the clearest snapshots yet of sex chromosomes caught in the act of being born, researchers in China have mapped the earliest stages of X and Y chromosome evolution in the darkbarbel catfish (Tachysurus…...

4+ week, 4+ hour ago   (1545+ words) Sun, Aug 16, 2026 | Rabi al-Awwal 3, 1448 | Fajr 04:31|DXB 35.8°C A 17-year-old Dubai College graduate who prepared for the International Biology Olympiad (IBO) largely on his own has made UAE history after winning a bronze medal at one of the world’s leading biology…...

5+ day, 21+ hour ago   (787+ words) When Martin J. Hodson walked through the door of Dafydd Wynn Parry’s office at Bangor University in Wales on 20 October 1980, he had no idea that the encounter would define the next four and a half decades of his scientific life....

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (221+ words) Mirage News All living things have a fleet of tiny copy machines that turn instructions from DNA into RNA, the molecules responsible for helping build proteins that keep organisms alive. One of those nanoscale machines, called eukaryotic RNA polymerase II,…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (901+ words) A trio of tiny snails collected along China’s coasts and waterways has provided scientists with new genetic clues to one of evolution’s most remarkable ecological stories: how members of the same gastropod family repeatedly moved between the sea, brackish estuaries…...