Scientists have uncovered a critical role for rapid DNA repair in maintaining genome stability. A new study reveals that ...

New research published in Communications Biology has uncovered the earliest known use of the medicinal and psychoactive plant ...

A new study finds humanity's closest living relatives will chew plants and apply makeshift poultices to wounds, and use ...

China's first batch of the carbon-14 isotope produced at a commercial reactor was officially dispatched on 16 May from the ...

A new report published Tuesday in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution provides fresh clues on the origin of human ...

Neil Hunter, a professor in the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at the University of California, Davis, and ...

Native Americans have used these plants traditionally as medicine for centuries, and they are collaborating with Salk in studying them.

Subjects like biology and chemistry must be made more interesting in schools so students take up STEM subjects, and go on to become doctors and biotechnologists.

Researchers analyzed Iron Age fumigation vessels from Qurayyah, Saudi Arabia, detecting harmala alkaloids from Peganum ...

Tulsi (Ocimum sanctum), also known as holy basil, is a revered herb in Ayurveda and Southeast Asian medicine for its ...