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The 2025 Annual Report from the Basic Sciences Division at Fred Hutch features the divisions reflections for the year, as ...

In a corner of a national park where the ground steams and the air smells faintly of sulfur, scientists have stumbled on a ...

In doing so, Paralvinella hessleri, a tiny deep-sea worm first discovered in 1989, transforms one of the deadliest substances ...

When cells can’t destroy damaged proteins, a hidden backup system led by NRF1 steps in to prevent toxic buildup.

Soybean oil is regarded as beneficial to health, but this study suggests that you can have too much of a good thing and ...

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Bacteria are among the most diverse and ancient forms of life on Earth. Yet, much of what is known about them comes from a ...

The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.

The energy that plants capture from sunlight through photosynthesis provides the source of nearly all of humanity’s food. Yet the process of photosynthesis has inefficiencies that limit crop ...

Adam Sibley, a post-doctoral student at Oregon State University, led a team of researchers to map the extent of scorching across the Pacific Northwest.

Today's biomedical researchers are relentlessly searching for genes that drive disease, with the goal of creating therapies ...