Microorganisms—bacteria, viruses and other tiny life forms—may drive biological variation in visible life as much, if not ...

Gene mutations have consequences both good and bad—from resistance to conditions like diabetes to susceptibility to certain ...

University President Father Dave Pivonka announced the launch of the Institute for the Study of Man and Woman during an Oct.

In a groundbreaking study, researchers at McMaster University have identified a potential treatment for Sandhoff and Tay-Sachs diseases—two rare, often fatal lysosomal storage disorders that cause ...

Scientific literature tends to treat the mind and body as separate entities, but humanistic works capture the psychological effects of cancer—loneliness, grief and anxiety. By narrating the emotional ...

Among extant genes known to have originated among Denisovans are sequences common in Tibetan populations that help the body ...

A study looking at the brain size of different breeds relative to their skulls reveals that big brains doesn't mean smarter dogs.

The pythons can go months — perhaps even longer than a year — without eating. But when they do it is a gourmand’s feast, with the python sometimes consuming a meal equivalent to its entire body weight ...

The actual connection between physics and molecular biology is that curvature and torsion are the most probable solutions ...

He noted that differences run through all levels of human biology and, “aside from our reproductive organs, the most sexually differentiated organ in the human body is the brain. The differences ...

Stories on the discovery of vital fluid-transport systems in the human body are among the winners of the 2024 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards. Winning journalists also did immersive stories on ...

Who built this ripped, anatomically graphic snowman? Is there a world of snowmen offscreen waiting to be turned into sex ...