Biology
The latest biology stories, curated daily by MechNews — Science, engineering, and discovery — the research and breakthroughs that matter.
- Cells 'sense' physical forces to seal tissues and protect organs
- AI points researchers toward new disease targets hidden in mitochondria
- Molecular 'self-destruct' switch discovered: How stressed cells decide between survival and death
- New findings explain how cells assemble machinery to repair damaged DNA
- Young European shags reveal how first winter experiences may guide migration
- Quantum control algorithm looks to explain how birds migrate
- Early snakes explored life underground, on land and at sea
- Bacteria may identify a virus without recognizing its DNA
- Ancient DNA reveals Ice Age humans targeted female woolly mammoths
- In biology of cells, octopus has another trick up its sleeve
- Are we missing the universe's 'noosignatures?'
- Student team develops innovative 'Trojan horse' in the fight against the Asian hornet