An international team led by Jaime de Juan-Sanz at the Paris Brain Institute has shown that slightly increasing the metabolic capacity of neurons can enhance long-term memory in both fruit flies and ...

Boosting mitochondrial calcium by inhibiting the LETM1 protein enhances long-term memory formation in flies and mice.

Cornell University researchers have identified a calcium-sensitive structural “gate” inside a bacterial enzyme that toggles ...

Villigen, Switzerland, 24 February 2026 - ASTRA Therapeutics AG today announced the appointment of Dr. Fabian Kausche as ...

For a long time, the origin of complex life has seemed like a chapter torn out of the book of biology. The middle has been ...

The old habit in biodiversity science was to treat species counts as a mostly settled backdrop, then debate decline, recovery, and risk on top of that. That backdrop is starting to look unstable, and ...

Depending on others for something you need may feel like a risky proposition—and perhaps a human one. It is actually a ...

Researchers summarize key insights from the world’s first comprehensive investigation into how a pandemic started.

Researchers are engineering bacteria to invade tumors and consume them from the inside. Because tumor cores lack oxygen, they ...

For decades, scientists viewed the genome of a newly fertilized egg as a structural "blank slate"—a disordered tangle of DNA ...

Researchers have been studying tens of thousands of proteins and even more variations without a yardstick to compare their results.

New Zealand conservationists have been fighting for years to keep the kakapo, the world’s only flightless parrot, from ...