Long cast as villains, some protists, such as Blastocystis, are potentially beneficial to human health.

Even after 20 million years of evolutionary separation, two tiny worm species show astonishingly similar patterns in how they turn genes on and off. Scientists mapped every cell s activity during ...

Despite being genetically identical, bacteria can vary considerably in shape and size. Whether these variations affect ...

A research team at the University of Münster has investigated for the first time how the confrontation of bacteria with hosts ...

A new study suggests that certain gut bacteria may influence the risk of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Using Mendelian ...

Rats in Boston are spreading a potentially deadly disease that is largely associated with tropical areas, according to a ...

I see so many people write into your column about big dicks and how they want them or miss them or need them. I’m not sure ...

How do living things evolve? What is the myriad of processes by which generic variations in a population affect organisms' ...

New research illustrates how the biological aging clock resets in Anthrobots, tiny multicellular organisms grown from a ...

Study shows gender differences in antibiotic resistance, with women in high-income countries having more resistant genes.

If we count all the species that humans have described so far, it’s about 2 million. New species get added all the time – ...