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Aging-focused biotech companies share how they're advancing therapies to slow disease, extend lifespan, and transform medicine.

An international team of researchers, with the involvement of the UAB, has conducted a study that explains the evolutionary ...

A single thermal performance curve applies across life, from bacteria to animals. Species differ in optimal temperatures, but not in the fundamental shape of their response to heat. Researchers at Tri ...

Ushikuvirus is a newly identified giant virus that infects amoebas, adding to a growing group of oversized viruses that scientists believe may have played an important role in the emergence of complex ...

Is consciousness everywhere? In every rock and atom? That is what panpsychists like the philosopher Philip Goff believe. They ...

Ushikuvirus, a newly identified giant virus, showcases unique cytopathic effects and structural features, enhancing knowledge of viral evolution and diversity.

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Using 3D bioprinting, researchers at UC San Diego, in collaboration with Allele Biotechnology, are developing transplantable ...

The International Space Station (ISS) is a closed ecosystem, and the biology inside it — including its microbial residents — ...