Solving a 100-Year-Old Paradox: Why Cancer Cells Waste So Much Energy
MIT study sheds light on the longstanding question of why cancer cells get their energy from fermentation. In the 1920s, German chemist Otto Warburg discovered…
MIT study sheds light on the longstanding question of why cancer cells get their energy from fermentation. In the 1920s, German chemist Otto Warburg discovered…
Scientists from the University of Portsmouth and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, have come up with a formula to help plant breeders and farmers around the…
Researchers from the University of Cambridge have discovered a fossil of the earliest starfish-like animal, which helps us understand the origins of the nimble-armed creature….
Genetic analysis shows that reindeer lichens reproduce sexually as opposed to asexually more often than researchers thought. In northern Canada, the forest floor is carpeted…
Researchers from the Hubrecht Institute mapped the recovery of the heart after a heart attack with great detail. They found that heart muscle cells —…
Efforts to understand when corals reproduce have been given a boost thanks to a new resource that gives scientists open access to more than forty…
Beyond the ski slopes, one of the most iconic symbols of the Alps are the alpine flowers. These plants are not only beautiful — they…
Research suggests the products of transcription — RNA molecules — regulate their own production through a feedback loop. At any given moment in the human…
Despite long-standing ideas about the importance of thumb evolution in tool use and development, questions remain about exactly when human-like manual dexterity and efficient thumb…
When Daniella Chusy, currently at Indiana University, USA, learned that many captive elephants were thought to be overweight and that their low birth rates suggested…
When tetrapods (four-limbed vertebrates) began to move from water to land roughly 390 million years ago it set in motion the rise of lizards, birds,…
Scientists first to quantify consumption noises using whitespotted eagle rays. “Shell-crushing” — exactly what it sounds like — is a predatory mode used by numerous…
A new test quickly and easily identifies when sperm are carrying chromosomal mutations, and could be applied for men hoping to have children. Chemotherapy and…
Organoids are organ-like tissues derived from stem cells that are grown in labs, often referred to as miniature organs. Because they can imitate the structure…
Researchers at Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) in Japan show that melatonin and its metabolites promote the formation of long-term memories in mice and…
New research led by the University of South Florida has uncovered one of the reasons jellyfish have come to be known as the “world’s most…
Using CRISPR technology, researchers are tracking the lineage of individual cancer cells as they proliferate and metastasize in real-time. When cancer is confined to one…
Mounting behavior, that awkward thrusting motion dogs sometimes do against your leg, is usually associated with sexual arousal in animals, but this is not always…