For billions of years, cells have perfected their biological machinery for making proteins, sending signals, and responding to their environment. Now scientists are learning how to program some of ...

As one of four panels that will provide input to the steering committee of "A Science Strategy for the Human Exploration of Mars;" the Panel on Biological and Physical Sciences and Human Factors will ...

New research has uncovered the complex biological history preserved within DNA traces found on the Shroud of Turin, offering ...

Forensic anthropology employs a combination of skeletal analysis, imaging technologies and computational methods to establish identity from human remains. Core techniques include morphological ...

Geroscience shifts the medical focus from treating individual diseases to targeting the fundamental biological drivers of aging. Cellular senescence involves aging cells that cease division but ...

A new study published in Biological Reviews critically examines the parallels and key differences between human migration and biological invasions. Bringing together experts from both the natural and ...

It’s a bit like seeing a world in a grain of sand. Except the view, in this case, is the exquisite detail inside a bit of human brain about half the size of a grain of rice. Held in that minuscule ...

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Purdue University College of Science has named Professor Peristera Paschou as the next head of the Department of Biological Sciences Professor Peristera Paschou, a researcher focusing on genomics and ...

Humans are fundamentally "musical animals"—and our capacity for music is rooted in biology, not just culture. This is the conclusion of new work by University of Amsterdam professor of Music Cognition ...