1+ min ago   (773+ words) The human gut is home to trillions of viruses, a sprawling community known as the virome, and yet it remains one of the least understood layers of the microbiome....

1+ min ago   (752+ words) The world’s glaciers are often imagined as frozen deserts, lifeless expanses of snow and ice too harsh to sustain anything beyond the occasional wayward snowflake....

1+ min ago   (83+ words) The biting midges that transmit some of Europe’s most damaging livestock viruses do not simply vanish when winter arrives, according to one of the most extensive vector surveillance studies ever conducted in Germany. But the same research delivers a reassuring…...

1+ min ago   (594+ words) Human adenovirus, one of the most important viral causes of childhood respiratory illness worldwide, has been mapped in unprecedented clinical detail in a new five-year study from northern China....

1+ min ago   (777+ words) A single molecule that straddles the boundary between blood vessel biology and immune regulation is emerging as one of the more intriguing targets in translational oncology....

19+ min ago   (158+ words) Regression analyses then revealed something striking: 921 microbial species showed statistically significant associations with two key lipid deposition traits—the skin fat ratio, a measure of subcutaneous fat, and the intramuscular fat content, the fat marbled within breast muscle. This suggested…...

41+ min ago   (742+ words) In a development that could reshape how scientists probe the molecular machinery of legumes, researchers in Poland have created the first transgene-free knockout lines of a key transporter gene in the model legume Medicago truncatula, using a two-stage CRISPR/Cas9 strategy…...

41+ min ago   (803+ words) In a finding that could reshape how scientists think about repairing the damaged human heart, researchers at the University of Guelph have shown that the leopard gecko, a small terrestrial reptile best known as a popular pet, can regenerate its…...

45+ min ago   (821+ words) Heat waves are steadily squeezing the margins of winter agriculture across South Asia, and few crops feel the squeeze more acutely than mustard....

1+ hour, 26+ min ago   (713+ words) A routine brain scan finding long dismissed as a passive scar of old bleeding may in fact be the visible tip of an active, treatable inflammatory process, according to new research that could reshape how specialists diagnose and manage one…...