biology

Researchers have captured the first clear view of the hidden architecture that helps shape a simple multicellular organism, showing how cells work...

How did the molecular building blocks for life end up on Earth? One long-standing theory is that they could have been delivered by comets. Now...

Scientists from the University of Cambridge, ETH Zurich, Harvard University, and the University of Chicago have founded the Origins Federation, which...

Researchers have used artificial intelligence to make new discoveries, and confirm old ones, about one of nature’s best-known mimics, opening up whole...

Wren Therapeutics secures £18 million in funding to tackle protein misfolding diseases.

Is artificial intelligence a benign and liberating influence on our lives – or should we fear an impending rise of the machines? And what rights...

The author of a new study of evolutionary convergence argues that the development of life on Earth is predictable, meaning that similar organisms...

New analysis of the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic in the US shows that the pandemic wave was surprisingly slow, and that its spread was likely...

Cambridge research that has for the first time successfully grown “mini-livers” from adult mouse stem cells has won the UK’s international prize for...

A delegation comprising some of Brazil’s most senior researchers and science administrators was in Cambridge on June 7 to take part in a half-day...