This article summarizes suggestions from several groups that have considered how evolutionary biology can be useful in medicine, what physicians should learn about it, and when and how they should ...

In a series of posts I want to explore the interplay between basic biology, which looks at the natural world to learn about how life works, and synthetic biology, which studies what is not found in ...

Scientists are starting to understand the precise workings of a type of gene that, unlike other genes, does not code for proteins – the building blocks of life. New research led by the University of ...

Depending on the body's needs, the liver utilizes lipids to generate metabolic energy, secretes them as lipoproteins, or packages them for storage Unbalanced lipid storage and utilization result in ...