Life may have emerged from a surprisingly simple network of chemical reactions long before cells or genes existed.

For decades, biology has relied on one central assumption: the genetic code is precise. DNA is transcribed into RNA, RNA is ...

When NASA scientists opened the sample return canister from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample mission in late 2023, they found ...

The transition from simple chemistry to the complex biology of molecules that gave rise to life is a puzzle that scientists ...

A combination of two classical biological laws, the global constraint principle delves deeper into complex biological ...

Take a jaunt through a jungle of strange neurons underlying your sense of touch, hundreds of millions of years of animal ...

This comprehensive e-book from The Hindu explores how gene editing tools like CRISPR and synthetic biology are fundamentally changing what it means to be human and are giving us the power to modify ...

Elective egg freezing, once largely a medical necessity, has gradually transformed into a planned step in long-term career ...

For nearly a century, biologists have relied on a simple rule to predict how microbes grow when food is scarce, a rule that ...

Although many people are choosing to have children later in life, biological fertility limitations remain unchanged ...

Sikkim Sundari is also known as the “Glasshouse Plant” due to its unique appearance. For 30 years, it survives as a small rosette of leaves, storing energy in harsh alpine conditions marked by ...

“My long-standing aim is to rethink what it truly means to be a plant,” Kenji Suetsugu, a botanist at Kobe University in ...