One of the biggest quests in biology is understanding how every cell in an animal's body carries an identical genome yet ...

Redd’s daily treatment reveals how orangutans with chronic respiratory diseases are adapting to use certain medical tools ...

Scientists discover Bronze Age plague DNA in 4,000-year-old sheep remains, shedding light on how ancient diseases spread ...

Smokey Bear. Ham the Space Chimp. Hsing-Hsing and Ling-Ling. Not many animals reach celebrity status, but it’s a bit of a tradition here at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo. In January, we rolled out ...

T his past year, we explored a lot of new cell biology research—from cancer to plants to microbes, and more! It’s hard to ...

Jonathan Allen, a biology professor at William & Mary in Virginia, has a very strange pet: a very very long ribbon worm ...

The humble planarian flatworm can regrow its brain. Here’s how this tiny animal will have you rethinking everything you ...

Researchers have found a way to control protein levels inside different tissues of a whole, living animal for the first time.

VISAKHAPATNAM: Experts from India and abroad highlighted the importance of scientifically robust, and ethically conducted preclinical animal research on the las ...

Giant tortoises are some of the long-lived species on the planet. Here’s what biologists now understand about one of nature’s ...

The worm is a nemertean, a group of soft-bodied marine predators found from tide pools to the deep sea. Its species is ...

One ocean-dwelling creature found in many tropic waters is known to be able to reserve its own life cycle, cheating death.