A sugar protects the subterranean rodents from out-of-control cell division.

Whether infecting hot spring-dwelling microbes or humans, viruses co-opt the same group of proteins to assemble themselves and break out of cells.

Wildlife veterinarians plan to track the canine distemper virus in Indonesia.

Following criticism of a National Cancer Institute communications office budget, biologists defend the spending.

In avian species, a gene induces programmed cell death during development in the area where a phallus would otherwise grow.

The ancient remains of a tiny primate suggest it likely ate insects, lived in trees, and weighed less than an ounce.

The National Institutes of Health has released a fact sheet on its budget pain following the sequester.

Italian students and scientists rallied in Milan in support of using animals for science.

An instrument aboard the spaceship that carried Curiosity to Mars has found that deep space travelers would face worrying levels of radiation.

Females of the pair-bonded rodent species become attached to their lifelong mates following histone modifications near oxytocin and vasopressin receptor genes.

Meet some of the people featured in the June 2013 issue of The Scientist.

How brains of toddlers with autism respond to language is associated with later cognitive abilities.