Animals

Researchers have discovered a new organelle in the guts of fruit flies.

The FDA has given Washington State University researchers the green light to feed five gene-edited pigs to people.

Costa Rica’s famed sloths harbor bacteria in their fur which can create antibiotic compounds — a potential source of future therapies.

Tardigrades have been frozen, boiled, exposed to extreme doses of radiation, and remarkably still survive. How?

Ants were just as accurate as cancer-sniffing dogs. Better yet, they could be trained in minutes rather than months.

Macaque monkeys reduce their social networks as they get older – research suggests evolutionary roots of the same pattern in elderly people.

An AI-based app that identifies dogs and cats based on their unique nose prints could help reunite lost pets and their owners.

As avian influenza continues to devastate the bird population and jump into mammals, scientists are preparing to protect two important groups.

The discovery of a new type of stem cell in deer antlers could lead to breakthroughs in human regeneration.

Many virologists are concerned that the latest bird flu outbreak could spill over to humans and cause a new human pandemic.