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The test can pick up several types of cancer, including pancreatic and ovarian, years before symptoms appear.

The first human experiment with neural precursor cells implanted to treat chronic spinal cord injury suggests the procedure is safe, and hints at a small benefit.  

Divergent human lineages of North America intermingled before setting off to establish populations of Central and South America.  

By observing the activity of a protein complex in real time, researchers have uncovered new evidence for a long-standing theory.

By combining experimental data with computer models, researchers were able to predict a pathogen’s evolution toward more virulence.

During the last ice age, there wasn’t much plant matter to eat on northern steppes, but herbivorous woolly mammoths were abundant. How did they survive?

The University of Michigan neuroscientist has developed therapies for patients with PTSD and laboratory models to understand its basis.

An entrepreneurial attitude helped this Vienna-based researcher begin to unravel the complex receptor network that Arabidopsis uses to develop and defend itself.

Austrian-American botanist Joseph Rock collected thousands of plant samples in his 27 years in the Middle Kingdom, leaving after the Communist Party’s takeover.

We should take comfort in the fact that life on Earth had such unassuming, shared beginnings.

Some beetle species may have evolved to tunnel into the ground to escape the pathogens that abound on dead and rotting animals.

The bat version of the STING protein helps dampen the mammals' immune response to infection, researchers have found.