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New findings are revealing how dogma-defying disordered proteins work — and their role in diseases and potential treatments.

The Bahama warbler, a small songbird found exclusively on Grand Bahama and Abaco, two islands in the north-east Bahama archipelago only “became” a species in 2010. But due to its limited range and increasingly fragmented habitat, the warbler was immediately treated as a species of conservation concern.

Nothing commands attention like rarity. In the natural world, rarity is most starkly represented by the last members of a declining species. These scarce plants and animals are infinitively valuable; they represent the final hope for averting extinction.

The common PSA blood test, according to experts, can lead to unneeded biopsies and ‘false reassurance in men with cancer’

Chromosal test developed by scientists could eliminate the need for biopsies

A researcher argues that animals understand how to live well better than their too-brainy counterparts

At work and at home, we spend hour after hour sitting, staring at screens or fiddling with our phones – and our hunched, twisted bodies bear the marks. Let’s get things straight again

These are the cancers that often don't show obvious early symptoms

Silent cancers include bowel, cervical, liver, lung, ovarian, prostate and pancreatic cancer