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Pancreatic cancer has the highest mortality rate of all major cancers. Given that the disease is asymptomatic at early stages,…

While developing his theory of natural selection, Charles Darwin was horrified by a group of wasps that lay their eggs…

There are a variety of methods that have been established to curtail the spread of infectious disease, from isolation or…

Biofilm oral bacteria (in red) can persist undetected inside hardened arteries, leading to the increased risk of myocardial infarctions.Image credit:Pekka…

Animal husbandry and ethicsAll experiments using mice were approved and performed in compliance with the Swiss Law on Animal Protection…

Children who are born with a single functioning copy of the SCN2A gene develop a condition called SCN2A haploinsufficiency, one…

Researchers at the Salk Institute investigated how Arabidopsis thaliana deals with stress, namely how it recovers from drought.Image credit:KasiqPlants, firmly…

Physicists studied the phase transitions that occur while making the pasta dish cacio e pepe.Credit: Karisssa/iStock via GettyMany scientists dream…

Twenty-seven species of bacteria and fungi among the hundreds that live in people’s mouths have been collectively tied to a…

Japanese researchers received the 2025 Ig Nobel Prize in biology for showing that black cows painted with white stripes repel…