A new review from Dr Chris Bryant focuses on the health and environmental benefits of plant-based products, as well as consumer attitudes.
Professor Laurence Hurst from the Milner Centre for Evolution finds solution to the mystery of why most human embryos die young.
Swans give up resting time to fight over the best feeding spots, new research shows.
Triclosan is used in everything from cleaners to pesticides to toys; researchers say exposure early in life may lay groundwork for future development of fatty liver disease
Analyses based on locations and viral sequencing of early cases indicate the COVID-19 pandemic started in Wuhan's Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market, with two separate jumps from animals to humans.
Reducing the sugar content of commercially prepared foods and beverages will have a larger impact on the health of Americans than other initiatives to cut sugar.
Of all the fungi that live in the human body, the most infamous is probably the yeast Candida.
Replacing an entrenched method in scientific research is difficult, even when the method is problematic. Such is the case with shifting from research studies based on the null hypothesis to a more realistic method of estimation.
It’s hard to imagine life on Earth without mammals.
A unique fungus survives by 'bewitching' male flies into mating with dead female flies.
Water repellency as the first step to life on land a billion years ago
New tissue engineering capabilities enable researchers to program contractility in functional layers of heart tissue bioprinted with human stem cell-derived organ building blocks
A new simulation by researchers at Israel’s Weizmann Institute shows how life could have originally evolved from simple fatty molecules known as micelles into self-reproducing structures capable of evolving to more complex forms.
By recreating the helical structure of heart muscles, researchers improve understanding of how the heart beats
The findings also have implications for other neuromuscular diseases such as ALS.
First results underscore the urgent need for a better understanding of how to address inequities in birth outcomes.
Re-introducing wolves and other predators to our landscapes does not miraculously reduce deer populations
Targeted repairs with ‘nicks’ of single DNA strands provide foundation for novel disease therapies
Discoveries of common mutations and dysfunction also point to therapeutic possibilities for both inherited disorders
A new atlas of tissue-resident memory T cells offers hope for therapies based on protective ‘first responders’