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So far, six animal species are known to carry transmissible, “parasitic” forms of cancer, but researchers are still mystified as to how cancer can become infectious.

The technology has wowed the field by all but obliterating some patients’ blood cancers, but solid malignancies present new challenges.

Advances in the functional characterization of newly discovered microproteins hint at diverse roles in health and disease.

A survey reveals the disease has decimated populations in Central and South America and tropical Australia and contributed to the extinction of 90 species.

A drive for revenue is damaging basic science.

Two independent studies in rats find grid cells, which form the brain’s map, are more plastic than thought and are subject to the influence of reward.

A number of rare diseases show unique epigenetic patterns across the genome, a feature researchers have now exploited to build a diagnostic tool.

Over 30 years, one-third of the wild bees and hoverfly species surveyed sustained losses, likely due to pesticides, habitat loss, and climate change.

The divergent strategies of scholarly publishers to forge licensing agreements with libraries are yielding different results.

Despite doubts last year about human adult neurogenesis, a study shows even 80-year-olds develop new cells in the hippocampus, but such growth is diminished in patients with Alzheimer’s disease.

Agriculture and other land uses can distort the levels of an earth mineral marker used to map the origins and movements of ancient humans and animals, a new study finds.

Researchers can now track the expansion of a resistance mechanism that allows the malaria vector Anopholes funestus to detoxify a key insecticide used on bed nets.