An investigation into a polar bear scientist’s suspension raises more questions than it answers.
An investigation into a polar bear scientist’s suspension raises more questions than it answers.
Sheng Wang leaves the Boston University School of Medicine and agrees to retract two published studies.
The Nobel Prize winner who discovered the gene that encodes the major histocompatibility complex passes away at age 90.
Starving brain cells can stimulate hunger through a common cannibalistic act, possibly explaining why some dieters can’t resist temptation.
John Marburger became a lightning rod for criticism that the Bush administration had politicized climate change science and human embryonic stem cell research.
While gut microbiota appear to have both positive and negative impacts on our health, in the guts of healthy, lean individuals, the good outweighs the bad. Gut bacteria, most of which reside in the large intestine, process many otherwise indigest
As the planet warms plant growth will likely increase—locking up some of that extra carbon dioxide by converting it into vegetative biomass—but that’s not the whole story. In addition to direct effects of rising temperatures and altered rainfall, mor
Gut bacteria that feed on healthy food appear to amplify the nutritional benefits of those foods. However, they also appear to amplify the undesirable effects of unhealthy food. Here are a few examples. Read the full story.
For more than 100 years, pathologists have observed cancer cells engulfing other live cells, but scientists are only now beginning to understand how it happens and what it means for tumorigenesis.
Using the strongest molecular binding partnership in biology to separate different cell types