The Greenland shark likes to stick around, with some estimates suggesting a lifespan of more than 500 years – and a new study ...

New research into how a retrovirus is spreading across populations of wild koalas in Queensland, Australia is leading to a ...

The immune system responds to an infection by producing antibodies that recognize and bind to the cell surface of the pathogen, thus marking it as an intruder and triggering an immune response. For ...

There is no area in which the United States’ global dominance is more total than higher education. With about 4% of the world’s population and 25% of its gross domestic product, America has 72% of ...

Five years after the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic, there has been progress — and backsliding in the ...

New findings show that the mitochondria powering our cells also control the ability of a DNA repair protein to suppress the senescence-associated secretory phenotype (SASP), which causes zombie-like ...

The gene DENND1B, which was found to particularly influence the appetite of labradors, is also linked to obesity in humans ...