microbes
Marburg virus, like its cousin Ebola, causes severe disease, with fatality rates ranging from 22% to 90%.
The road to intelligent life is a series of hard steps.
Epigenetic entropy shows that you can’t fully understand cancer without mathematics.
Gum disease begins in the mouth but spreads to the joints. Rheumatoid arthritis is just one of several diseases linked to poor oral health.
We may have discovered alien life already but rejected the evidence too quickly because it seemed false at first glance.
The pathogen typically kills more than 90% of people it infects.
Some microbes can withstand Earth's most inhospitable corners, hinting that life may be able to survive similarly extreme conditions on other worlds.
According to Peter Ward's "Medea hypothesis," photosynthesizing organisms regularly doom most life on Earth by over-consuming carbon dioxide.
Slimy biofilms made up of bacterial and eukaryotic life forms have taken over an abandoned, flooded uranium mine in Germany.
Disease kills off 40% of farmed catfish. This gene protects them.
Viruses, it turns out, can block one another and take turns to dominate.
Each year, several trillion pounds of microscopic silicon-based skeletons fall down the water column to pile up into siliceous ooze.
Once activated, the CRISPR-Cas12a2 system goes on a rampage, chopping up DNA and RNA indiscriminately, causing cell death.
Cryo-electron tomography, or cryo-ET, is the future of cell research.
Carnivores, herbivores, omnivores — and now virivores.
In the early 20th century, a young biochemist named Alexander Oparin set out to connect “the world of the living” to “the world of the dead.”
The vaccine provided protection for mouse and ferret models.
From synthetic biology to xenotransplantation, biotech will continue to march forward in 2023, in part powered by data and AI.
Concluding that Damar Hamlin's cardiac arrest was caused by the COVID vaccine requires accepting highly improbable leaps of logic.
Passing chunks of ice can fertilize ocean waters and play a role in the planet’s carbon cycle.
A new drug inhibits a human enzyme that coronaviruses hijack in order to replicate.
We are still new at this.
Dead whales inspire a way to find extraterrestrial life on Mars.
Toxoplasmosis, which results from a chance encounter with a cougar and the parasite it carries, can push a wolf to seek alpha status.
ChatGPT's capabilities are astonishing.
Mycobacterium leprae, the bacteria that cause leprosy, have the surprising ability to grow and reverse aging in armadillo livers.
It weakens the bacteria so that the immune system can destroy it.