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Cordyceps militaris uses an insect-like protein to manipulate its silkworm host into feeling like it’s starving, plumping it up to benefit fungal reproduction.

A new molecule helped normalize the ion flow that is disrupted in conditions like arrhythmia and epilepsy, offering a path to better drugs for the conditions.

Doctors have long recognized that many infections carry distinct smells. Now researchers are leveraging this to diagnose antimicrobial resistance within minutes.

A drug that acts on a notoriously hard-to-target protein shows promise in a cat oral cancer clinical trial. It may someday help human patients, too. 

Parasitic infection in cultured cells prompted mitochondria to consume more folate, leaving less of the essential nutrient for the microbe to grow.

A list of research priorities released by the NIH addressed many important topics, but ongoing funding uncertainties leave scientists anxious.

Scientists discovered chemical reactions that place amino acids on tRNAs and extend peptide chains without enzymes, a key step in the origin of life.

An unusually short and wide pelvis helps humans stand and walk on two legs, but how did it get this way?

Cancer cells have fewer heavy hydrogen atoms in their lipids as compared to healthy cells. The finding unearths a potential geochemical tool for cancer diagnosis in the future.   

A single-cell spatial proteomic atlas of microglia in human brains revealed broad functional changes in Alzheimer’s disease.

Honeybees aren’t rigid architects. They modify their construction techniques when conditions are less than ideal, lending insight into complex bee behavior.

Worms that inhabit hydrothermal vents combine environmental arsenic and sulfide to form a nontoxic mineral to survive in a harsh environment.