Life Learned To Breathe Oxygen Hundreds of Millions of Years Earlier Than Scientists Thought

Oxygen is everywhere on Earth today. But that hasn’t always been the case. Scientists think oxygen only became a lasting part ...
Nature

What were the first animals? The fierce sponge–jelly battle that just won’t end

For almost two decades, scientists have debated whether sponges or comb jellies are the first animal lineage. Now some are ...
Business Wire

iOrganBio Emerges from Stealth with $2M and Launches CellForge™, the First AI-Powered Cell Manufacturing Platform

CHAPEL HILL, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--iOrganBio today announced its launch from stealth with $2 million in funding to transform how human cells are made. The round was led by First Star Ventures along ...
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How to eat when you don't have a mouth: Lessons from 5 animals

Not all animals have a mouth, or even need one to eat! These different feeding strategies can teach us a lot about our ancestors and how they went from not needing a mouth at all to only eating with ...
Nebraska Examiner

New bill would require Nebraska K-12 schools to teach anti-communist lessons

LINCOLN — A new bill would require Nebraska’s K-12 schools to teach lessons about the ills of communism. Legislative Bill 1024 from State Sen. Dave Murman of Glenvil would require each Nebraska school ...
Seeking Alpha

ImmunityBio Advances First-Line BCG Naive NMIBC Program with Enrollment Exceeding Expectations and Positive Interim Analysis for ANKTIVA® Plus BCG

Enrollment of BCG naïve subjects (QUILT-2.005) receiving BCG alone versus BCG plus ANKTIVA exceeding expectations 85% enrolled with anticipated completion in Q2 2026 with BLA filing to U.S. Food and ...
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The first vertebrates to reach the moon were Soviet tortoises, Zond 5, the 1968 lunar flyby, and the secret biology mission

In September 1968, the Soviet Union’s Zond 5 mission looped around the Moon and returned safely to Earth with two tortoises and a hidden biological payload, a quiet first in the lunar race. What came ...
Colossal

Michelangelo Made His First Masterpiece When He Was 12 Years Old

Before he was a titan of Renaissance art history, Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564) was a 12-year-old, although his childhood looked quite a bit different from what we associate with that age today.
BioSpace

Boehringer Ingelheim advances potential first-in-class IL-11 inhibitor to Phase II Clinical Research in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis

Ingelheim, Germany, 13 January 2026 – Boehringer Ingelheim today announced the start of a Phase IIa clinical trial evaluating BI 765423, a novel monoclonal antibody targeting interleukin-11 (IL-11), ...