The Scientist - Home

While the weather isn’t currently the dominant factor driving SARS-CoV-2 transmission, experts say that in the future COVID-19 may become a disease of winter.

A massive screen of bacterial and archaeal genomes revealed five previously unknown instances where an organism uses an alternate code to translate genetic blueprints into proteins.

A key mutation turns healing cells into cancer promoters.

Probing the protein landscape in lung cancers reveals new therapeutic insights.

Microclots in blood plasma may be behind Long COVID’s chronic symptoms.

More than two-thirds of mammals in Africa and the Arabian Peninsula went extinct during the Eocene-Oligocene transition some 30 million years ago, a study finds.

Using a novel lab technique, researchers identified a mutation that allows the virus to insert more genetic material into host cells.

Geckos injected with neural stem cells modified to block cartilage growth developed the skeletal and nervous components normally lacking from regrown tails.

The transcription factor can also drive the opposite transition depending on which hormone activates it, according to a new study.

Armed with improved imaging techniques and supercomputers, researchers are generating detailed three-dimensional images of cellular structures that anyone can explore.

Multiple white tailed deer tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 likely transmitted from humans, a study finds, indicating the species could act as a reservoir for the virus.

The mice, already known to regenerate skin, seem to avoid the tissue scarring that leads to organ failure in other animals.