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Two island populations of male crickets independently evolved to evade parasites by keeping quiet, and have come up with a way to sneak matings with females that still seek the male courtship song.

Circumcision and sexual activity are but two factors that can influence the bacterial communities that inhabit male genitalia.

A round-up of recent discoveries in behavior research

Compiling mass spectrometry profiles of human tissues and cell lines, two separate groups publish near-complete drafts of the human proteome.

A survey of trillions of base pairs of microbial DNA reveals a considerable degree of stop codon reassignment.

Eliminating a pain receptor makes mice live longer and keeps their metabolisms young.

Moms bombard their babies with bugs both before and after they’re born.

What researchers are learning as they sequence, map, and decode species’ genomes

The oviducts of pigs exhibit different gene expression profiles depending on their exposure to sperm with either an X or a Y chromosome, a study shows. 

An Illinois man has contracted the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus from the Indiana patient who was recently hospitalized, marking the first confirmed human-to-human transmission of MERS within the U.S.

The overly simplistic notion of a Lactobacillus-dominated vaginal microbiome is giving way to an appreciation of diverse and dynamic bacterial communities.

An algorithm can pick out biologically and clinically meaningful variants from whole-exome sequences of tumors.