A crew of tiny worms will be heading on a mission to the International Space Station in 2026 that will help scientists understand how humans can travel through space safely, using a Leicester-built ...

Space biology research focuses on answering fundamental mechanistic questions about how molecular, cellular, tissue and whole organismal life responds to the space environment. Biological stressors of ...

Much of what we know about plant circadian rhythms is the result of laboratory experiments where inputs such as light and temperature can be tightly controlled. Less is known about how these ...

Adopting certain eating and lifestyle changes can have a significant impact on our biological age. A stunning experiment delving into how diet and daily habits can impact, and even reduce, age is ...

Biological experiments are generating increasingly large and complex sets of data. This has made it difficult to reproduce experiments at other research laboratories in order to confirm - or refute - ...

Data generated in perturbation experiments link perturbations to the changes they elicit and therefore contain information relevant to numerous biological discovery tasks—from understanding the ...

Biology is one of the most basic fields of science with direct application to humans. Our continued existence on the planet Earth will depend on how we resolve biological problems. Biology ranges in ...