A new UCLA Health study suggests that long-term exposure to the pesticide chlorpyrifos may dramatically raise the risk of Parkinson’s disease. Researchers found that people living in areas with ...

Livestock breeders could soon have more tools to improve the health and quality of their animals, thanks to a recent study that sheds new light on regulatory elements in the sheep genome.

Around 200 million animals are used in lab research around the world each year. Organoids may one day replace them.

In April of 2025, headlines across the world announced that the dire wolf had been brought back from extinction. This 130-150 lbs wolf species, about 25% heavier than modern-day gray wolves, had not ...

Inside the growing scientific quest to understand what creatures with the extraordinary ability to defy the ravages of time ...

Scientists have identified a genetic variation in animals living at extremely high altitudes that might help repair damage in ...

Scientists have discovered that a genetic change found in animals living at very high altitudes may help repair damage in the ...

Snakes have lost the gene that encodes ghrelin, a hormone that helps regulate hunger in many vertebrates, according to a new study.

A genetic mutation tied to keeping the brain healthy at high altitudes may point to a way to repair nerve damage, experiments in mice show.

A communication pathway between the brain and the gut may be integral to how well the brain holds on to memories ...

Advances in organ and computer models are raising the prospect that some animal experiments could be eliminated. But there ...