Biologists are quietly rewriting what it means to be alive, and the human body has become one of their strangest frontiers.
It has been claimed that because most of our DNA is active, it must be important, but now human-plant hybrid cells have been ...
Cancer has long been treated as a mass of rogue cells, but the real power lies in the intricate communication networks ...
WIRED spoke with DeepMind’s Pushmeet Kohli about the recent past—and promising future—of the Nobel Prize-winning research ...
In 2025, UCL scientists made breakthroughs in Huntington’s disease, cancer and sight loss, revealed the Sun’s south pole and ...
Last year’s chemistry Nobel prize was awarded to researchers using AI to study proteins in entirely new ways, and in 2025 researchers have continued to reveal new secrets about proteins using powerful ...
Background Fermented foods are a promising yet underexplored intervention for influencing brain function and mental health through the gut–brain axis. Objective The objective of this study was to ...
What keeps our cells the right size? Scientists have long puzzled over this fundamental question, since cells that are too large or too small are linked to many diseases. Until now, the genetic basis ...
Scientists successfully sequence the RNA from woolly mammoths found in Siberia that lived up between 10,000 thousand and 50,000 years ago. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...
For centuries, scientists have recognized that certain illnesses can run in families, an idea that dates back to Hippocrates. Over time, researchers have become increasingly skilled at uncovering how ...
People are still debating whether the mRNA from COVID-19 vaccines remains in the body longer than it should. Some say it lingers and causes harm, others say that idea just doesn’t hold up. A new ...
Why did life choose ribose? A new study uncovers a chemical advantage that may have given this sugar a head start in the origins of life. Credit: Stock Scripps scientists show that ribose may have ...