The biologist’s bold “energetic view of life” looks to the body’s strangest organelles as the link between cells, health, and ...

Movement defines life across the animal kingdom. From a fish cutting through water to a bird taking flight, muscles power ...

Within every muscle of every living species with a backbone, a protein called myosin tugs on a partner protein to generate a ...

The epigenetic modifier MLL4 has an unassuming name—the 4, for instance, indicates it's just one in a family of such ...

A new Lancet review concludes that mRNA COVID-19 vaccines neither persist indefinitely in the body nor become part of our DNA ...

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I grew up in a faithful Methodist household in deep-red Texas during the George W. Bush years, when the political sway of evangelicals was at its zenith. At the same time, evangelists of a robust ...

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Nancy Guthrie vanished on February 1 from her secluded Tucson, Arizona, home in the dead of night. The saga has become a waking nightmare for Guthrie’s family, with her daughter, “Today” show host ...

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