Peter Reddien's lab at the Whitehead Institute takes a step forward in understanding how neural circuits could be regenerated in adults.

Certain cancer therapeutics concentrate within cells — a finding that could change the way scientists think about drug design.

The lateral septum encodes spatial information with a special emphasis on where the reward lies.

Mud blister worms make their homes in the shells of oysters and other shellfish, where they weaken their hosts.

An antigen test was given emergency use authorization by the FDA in early May. A biochemist explains how COVID-19 antigen tests work.

The MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab is funding 10 research projects aimed at addressing the health and economic consequences of the pandemic.

The COVID-19 pandemic is interrupting scientific field work across North America, leaving blank spots in important data sets and making it harder to track ecological change.

Nine biology alumni had just three minutes and one slide to awe the audience and judges.

Differently shaped RNA molecules allow HIV to express different genes from the same RNA sequence.