Nurture is more influential than nature when it comes to number of major diseases and premature death, according to a new ...

Environmental and lifestyle factors play a far greater role than genetics in determining the likelihood of dying young, ...

Could restoring the environment in one place -- say by turning farmland in Europe into a nature reserve -- harm plants and ...

The good news is biosolutions can help. Biosolutions – biological technologies that use enzymes, microbes and functional ...

Beauty follows objective patterns in nature, guided by evolution and mathematics. The Fibonacci sequence and Golden Ratio ...

Biomedical engineers have demonstrated a new synthetic approach that turbocharges bacteria into producing more of a specific protein, even proteins that would normally destroy them, such as ...

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Illinois College's orchid research continues to bloom with a new book release and international collaborations highlighting ...

With threats of avian flu and lead poisoning, biologists are working overtime to care for a species that nearly went extinct.

A new study draws a line between random genetic mutations and predictable epigenetic changes used to measure biological aging.

Pesticides are significantly harming wildlife across the planet, stunting growth, damaging reproduction and even causing ...

Dungeness crab, Pacific herring, and red abalone are among the marine species most vulnerable to the changing climate's ...