The prescription poop can correct life-threatening bacterial imbalances in the gut.
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The crabs’ blue blood contains an ancient immune defense mechanism that has helped save countless human lives.
“If we could target those circuits very precisely, then there’s great potential to block the inflammation response for many diseases.”
Embark on a journey through one of the most profound ecological transitions in the history of complex life.
Metaphors like the Great Chain of Being can lead people to misunderstand evolution and humanity’s place in the web of life.
Research suggests that to maintain a healthy brain, we should tend our gut microbiome.
A food safety researcher explains another way to know what’s too old to eat.
Known as the Great Oxygenation Event, Earth froze over as oxygen accumulated in our atmosphere, nearly driving all life extinct.
Researchers have discovered 830-million-year-old microbes living inside a salt rock on Earth. Could the same occur on Mars?
We may have discovered alien life already but rejected the evidence too quickly because it seemed false at first glance.
“I am not sick at all but everyone around me becomes sick.”
New DNA analyses raise questions over the theory that Christopher Columbus and his men brought syphilis to Europe.
A mouthwash solution containing ferumoxytol and a dye could treat, prevent, and diagnose tooth decay, according to UPenn researchers.
Smallpox, Ebola, HIV, influenza, the plague, malaria, and a whole host of terrible bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites were cooked up by Mother Nature, all on her own. Apparently, Mother Nature hasn’t banned gain-of-function research.
Just as human beings diversified so that people in Asia look different from people in Europe, so too did their microbiomes.
Disease kills off 40% of farmed catfish. This gene protects them.
This Yale researcher is creating an experimental therapy for cystic fibrosis made from viruses – and it’s working.
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Hundreds of millions of animals get killed for meat every day.
With around 5,000 summertime residents, increased tourism, and a warming planet, it is becoming difficult to protect Antarctica from invasion.
Sometimes, new combinations of preexisting things revolutionize life.
To date, only one research vessel has ever encountered a milky sea.
The human brain is only the latest chapter in the ancient story of thinking on Earth.
What would it take to create a truly intelligent microbot, one that can operate independently?
Mass sociogenic illnesses can afflict thousands of people.
A second Enlightenment would have a far bigger task: Saving civilization itself.
Visionaries from Socrates to Steve Jobs have touted curiosity as an essential quality. Here’s how to supercharge your spirit of inquiry.
Livestock now outweighs wild mammals and birds ten-fold.
He wear no shoeshine, he got toe-jam football…