For decades, aging has looked like a one-way street, a slow accumulation of damage written into our cells. Now a wave of ...

They are not quite alive, yet not convincingly dead, and they may soon be prescribed alongside, or even instead of, the pills in your medicine cabinet. These strange entities, from rod-shaped genetic ...

Mendel’s monastery garden experiments went largely unnoticed during his life, but their implications would ripple through ...

Scientists studying genetic data from over a quarter million people have uncovered new clues about what controls how fast the gut moves. They identified multiple DNA regions linked to bowel movement ...

Bowel habits aren't exactly dinner-table talk. But they reflect how quickly the gut moves things along, and when that goes ...

"Complex evolutionary interactions." Researchers discover surprising ally in fight to protect food supply: 'Stable and ...

Chronic inflammation may be quietly reshaping the colon and making it more vulnerable to early-onset colorectal cancer. Scientists found that colon tissue in younger patients was stiffer, even in ...

A genetic study shows how human breeding choices influence ear length in dogs and why those traits persist across breeds.

New research shows how surface material and temperature change how long viruses survive and whether they can still spread.

Archaeologists have spent decades debating how and when people first entered the Americas. The outlines are familiar, but the ...

How do cutting-edge science and technology respond to ethical and legal issues when incorporated into society? These issues ...

In experiments with mice, Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists report new evidence that precursors of myelin-producing cells—one ...