A cytokine involved in suppressing the immune system may actually activate it to kill cancer cells.
A cytokine involved in suppressing the immune system may actually activate it to kill cancer cells.
House mice sing melodies out of the range of human hearing, and the crooning is impacting research from evolutionary biology to neuroscience.
An evolutionary biologist’s posthumous publication restores the peppered moth to its iconic status as a textbook example of evolution.
Research on an 18th and 19th century Finnish population suggests that agriculture and monogamy may not have stopped human evolution.
A combination of antibiotics and the body’s own defensive metabolites clears bacterial infections faster than antibiotics alone.
A genetic analysis reveals that the polar bear split from the brown bear some 600,000 years ago.
Scientists show that manmade nucleic acids can replicate and evolve, ushering in a new era in synthetic biology.
A new law opens the door to teaching creationism and climate change denialism in the state's public schools.
In rhesus macaques, an individual's drop in the social hierarchy leads to overactive immune genes and, possibly, poor health.