A former surgeon's biology-inspired startup is creating soft robotic cells that could transform how intelligent machines are ...

Soil bacteria make cocktails of molecules that synergistically inhibit the growth of microbial pathogens — suggesting a ...

When it comes to choosing a partner, some species prefer males that stand out from the crowd. Evolutionary biologists call the resulting process negative frequency-dependent selection. It means that a ...

Drones with propellers, for instance, are very agile and able to hover; however, they use up a lot of energy. Airplanes, on ...

Scientists have long known that the DNA code in genes is not the only way to pass genetic traits from parents to offspring. "Epigenetic" marks—chemical modifications to DNA that don't change the DNA ...

Antibiotic resistance and tolerance are thought to be the key phenotypic traits that underpin evolutionary adaptation to antibiotics. However, the concepts of resistance and tolerance can be traced ...

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