Colossal Biosciences is making strides in de-extinction, successfully growing pigeon germ cells, a crucial step towards resurrecting the do...

A deadly airborne fungus called Aspergillus is spreading rapidly across the globe, with scientists warning that climate change is accelerat...

A new study forecasts that climate change will enable Aspergillus, a fungus causing the deadly disease aspergillosis, to expand its reach a...

New research reveals that larger animals like elephants and giraffes have higher cancer rates compared to smaller species. However, these s...

Genetic alterations have come a long way. We arguably began doing it thousands of years ago, when we started selectively breeding crops for...

This bacterium, first discovered discovered in 1972, plays a unique role in helping to breakdown resistant starch.

It goes beyond everyday fiddling: In the last few years, companies and scholars have started to use AI to supercharge work they could never...

Natural products from microbes and plants are the biggest resource for drug discovery.

The findings showed that a particular type of gut microbe leads to white adipose tissue containing macrophage cells, large cells that are p...

A Chinese scientist, He Jiankui, claimed last year that he had created the world’s first gene-edited babies using Crispr, to make them resi...

Elephants have 38 additional modified copies (alleles) of a gene that encodes p53, a well-defined tumour suppressor, as compared to humans,...

Diseases are spreading across the world and could become the cause of future wars.