Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), affecting an estimated 6–8 million people worldwide, may soon be monitored with a simple ...

Geroscience shifts the medical focus from treating individual diseases to targeting the fundamental biological drivers of aging. Cellular senescence involves aging cells that cease division but ...

When scientist J. Craig Venter and his team announced in 2010 that they had created the first cell controlled by a fully synthetic genome, it marked a turning point in how scientists think about life.

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Biology — the science of life, living things and the processes that keep us all running — links up in essential ways with many other sciences, such as chemistry, physics and mathematics, which help us ...

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Human biology evolved for a world of movement, nature, and short bursts of stress—not the constant pressure of modern life. Industrial environments overstimulate our stress systems and erode both ...

J. Craig Venter, one of the lead scientists in sequencing the human genome and a pioneer of modern genomics, died on ...

An engineer's quest to fix radio interference in 1933 unexpectedly led to a monumental discovery. Karl Jansky's rotating antenna detected a mysterious, periodic hiss, not from Earth or the Sun, but ...

The National Academy of Sciences announced today the election of 120 members and 25 international members in recognition of ...