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Scientists have engineered tobacco and lettuce plants to produce myoglobin—the iron-rich protein responsible for much of meat’s red color and…

Electrical stimulation of the human brain can reorganize neural activity in ways that are closely tied to gene regulation, according…

A quantum signal has completed a difficult journey through 62 kilometers of aerial fiber in the Maryland suburbs, surviving the…

Medical progress is transforming not only how long people live, but also the diseases they live with. A new population-based…

Metastable materials often vanish from the laboratory bench before researchers can study them. They form only briefly, quickly transforming into…

A child’s broken bone can heal in an unexpected way. Instead of restoring the delicate architecture of the growth plate,…

Living alongside pumas may seem like a dangerous bargain, but new research suggests that the presence of these large predators…

A healing colon does not simply switch genes on and off. Its cells appear to follow a complex daily timetable,…