43+ min ago   (371+ words) A decade after Fukushima's evacuation, escaped farm pigs bred with wild boars—but nature is erasing the domestic legacy faster than anyone predicted. By Science Blog Editorial Team Published September 13, 2026 · How we edit When the sirens emptied the towns around…...

13+ min ago   (747+ words) For years, biologists catalogued small non-coding RNAs by counting how many of each type appeared in a sequencing run. That approach treated tiny RNA molecules as a census problem, and it worked well enough for microRNAs, the classical regulators of…...

1+ hour, 5+ min ago   (628+ words) A new open-source software package promises to transform how biologists hunt for the genetic switches that separate males from females in species with no reference genome....

1+ hour, 27+ min ago   (568+ words) Beneath the sun-baked soils of eastern and southern Africa, a family of rodents has quietly rewritten the rules of mammalian life. Naked mole-rats resist cancer, tolerate near-anoxic conditions and barely age. Damaraland mole-rats dig elaborate tunnel networks and live in…...

1+ hour, 36+ min ago   (55+ words) Deep within the human genome lies an ancient threat. Long interspersed elements-1, known as LINE-1 or L1, are the only autonomous transposable elements still active in our DNA, making up roughly 17 percent of the genome. When these genetic parasites leap to…...

2+ hour, 22+ min ago   (82+ words) Scientists have identified a previously unknown genetic cause of chronic brain edema in children, tracing the disorder to a single faulty transporter protein that normally helps astrocytes manage acidity in the brain. The finding, published in Annals of Clinical and…...

2+ hour, 35+ min ago   (75+ words) Bladder urothelial carcinoma remains one of the most challenging malignancies in oncology, a disease whose treatment has been persistently undermined by its remarkable ability to shrug off chemotherapy. Now, a team of researchers in China has uncovered a molecular mechanism…...

4+ hour, 58+ min ago   (90+ words) For decades, the vast stretches of the human genome that do not encode proteins were dismissed as evolutionary baggage, a biological wasteland dismissed with the shorthand of “junk DNA.” A comprehensive new review published in Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology makes…...

5+ hour, 15+ min ago   (620+ words) Every heartbeat, every twitch of a fin, and every dividing cell in a fish embryo depends on a molecular machine so ancient that its origins trace back billions of years. Oxidative phosphorylation, or OXPHOS, is the process by which cells…...

5+ hour, 53+ min ago   (653+ words) The gene-editing field has long faced a stubborn trade-off. Tools such as CRISPR-Cas9 excel at cutting DNA and at making small, targeted changes, but installing large pieces of genetic material into a genome at a precise location — without causing collateral…...