Biology & Aging
One of the oldest and most complete plesiosaur fossils recovered in North America, and the oldest yet discovered from the Cretaceous Period,...
Logistics is a key part of life. Nutrition, tools and information constantly have to be transported from one place to another in cells. Scientists at...
The vision system used to process color is separate from that used to detect motion, according to a new study by researchers at New York University’s...
Scientists at Schepens Eye Research Institute have discovered what chemical in the eye triggers the dormant capacity of certain non-neuronal cells to...
Gene therapy, in which a working gene is inserted into a cell to replace a faulty or absent gene, is a promising experimental technique for the...
Scientists have known for more than a decade that a protein associated with the HIV virus is good at crossing cell membranes, but they didn’t know...
Biologists have discovered a molecular circuit breaker that controls a zebrafish's remarkable ability to regrow missing fins, according to a new...
Progress on the road to regenerating major body parts, salamander-style, could transform the treatment of amputations and major wounds.
A salamander...
Many of the genes that control the lifespan of roundworms serve the same function in yeast, say researchers. This gives a strong hint that mammals,...
Nowhere is the principle of "strength in numbers" more apparent than in the collective power of microbes: despite their simplicity, these one-cell...
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