The biotech revolution spent decades trying to harness power for medicine. The next chapter is harnessing it for everything ...

The cover of National Geographic’s March issue featured a tractor tire dangling from a thread. Not metaphorically, but literally, because the thread is spider silk — five times stronger than steel but ...

Gladstone Institutes investigator Ryan Corces, PhD, has been named a 2026 winner of the Pershing Square Foundation’s MIND ...

Researchers have found that a single genetic signal located in a part of DNA once dismissed as "junk" can determine biological sex, Bar-Ilan University said in a statement on Friday. For decades, ...

A small group of humans barely rest at night – and never suffer for it. Science is about to find out why that matters for all ...

Researchers at the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG) have discovered a key genetic regulatory mechanism that becomes disrupted in heart failure ...

Explore 25 Discoveries That Terrified Scientists, from dark energy to rogue planets. Uncover unsettling truths about our ...

Changing just a single base in a specific DNA region of a female mouse embryo led to the development of male reproductive organs. A research team led by Nitzan Gonen at Bar-Ilan University in Israel h ...

As of spring 2026, a cancer drug that has spent years in clinical development as a Wnt/beta-catenin pathway blocker has been ...

A cancer drug target already being investigated in clinical trials turns out to be doing something even more consequential than researchers realized. Scientists at Scripps Research have discovered ...

Discovery reshapes understanding of how tumor cells repair broken DNA, pointing toward more precise cancer therapies.