There might be a paradox in the biology of ageing. As humans grow older, their metabolisms tend to slow, they lose muscle ...

The Article demonstrating that the microbial metabolite ADP-heptose might be linked to a condition associated with ageing in humans represents a major advance in understanding how microorganisms might ...

The decision means that the US biomedical agency has to restore funding to hundreds of research projects, but the government ...

A competition to develop computational approaches to detect ‘novelty’ in published papers will help metascientists to study ...

Models suggest that human-caused global warming would have been detectable in the 19th century with today's know-how.

Human–animal chimaeras are an exciting yet challenging area of research. Human cells are coaxed to grow in animal embryos, allowing researchers to study human tissue development. But the long-term ...

To celebrate the centenary of this event, several hundred researchers have descended on the island to take part in a ...

Researchers have reported growing hearts containing human cells in pig embryos for the first time. The embryos survived for ...

Your inhalation and exhalation pattern is not only unique to you, it can be a marker of your physical and mental state, study ...

A man with a severe speech disability is able to speak expressively and sing using a brain implant that translates his neural ...

An emergency-room doctor, critics of COVID-19 vaccines and an obstetrician who advises a supplement company are among the ...

Analysis of almost three million children captures when ‘mathematical gender gap’ first emerges and could help focus efforts ...