Month: March 2016

Scientists have long sought an efficient method for targeting RNA — intermediary genetic material that…

During gestation, a mother’s microbiome shapes the immune system of her offspring, a new study…

While researching the brain’s learning and memory system, scientists at Johns Hopkins say they stumbled…

Researchers have identified seven genes responsible for causing mice to stay awake or fall asleep…

You probably don’t think much of fungi, and especially those that turn bread moldy, but…

Turnover is to be expected in the gut — as soon as one bacterium leaves,…

When Earth’s first organisms were formed, it may have been in an ice cold ocean….

The legend of St. Patrick banishing snakes from the emerald isle some 1,500 years ago…