Studying chemical chatter as tiny balls of cells embed could shine a light on early pregnancy and glitches that lead to miscarriage ...

Find out which animals live the longest and what clues this gives us for potentially slowing down human aging.

A groundbreaking experiment transforms skin cells into egg-like cells, offering hope for infertility treatments amidst ...

A 3D uterus embryo implantation simulation chip developed by a Chinese research team has, for the first time, fully ...

Although it also performs some functions in men, estrogen, the main female sex hormone, is involved in a myriad of processes, ...

Balanophora plants represent an extreme example of this shift. They do not produce their own food through photosynthesis but ...

The study reveals how Balanophora plants function despite abandoning photosynthesis and, in some species, sexual reproduction. Their plastid genomes shrank dramatically in a shared ancestor, yet the ...

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

There is a state of relaxation that few of us spend much time in, but which comes with profound well-being benefits. With ...

“My long-standing aim is to rethink what it truly means to be a plant,” Kenji Suetsugu, a botanist at Kobe University in Japan, said in a statement. “For many years I have been fascinated by plants ...

One ocean-dwelling creature found in many tropic waters is known to be able to reserve its own life cycle, cheating death.

Research into how a father’s choices — such as diet, exercise, stress, nicotine use — may transfer traits to his children has ...