Temperature Variability Across the World Alters the Ecological Impacts of Seasons
New research from the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology and the University of Wyoming details how changes in temperature variability across the globe are…
New research from the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology and the University of Wyoming details how changes in temperature variability across the globe are…
A newly published study from the international Genetic Investigation of Anthropometric Traits (GIANT) Consortium gives scientists a better look at the biology of height and…
An international team of experts has revealed a genetic switch that controls pneumococcus infection and allows the bacterium to randomly change its characteristics into six…
Researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have discovered an on-and-off “switch” in cells that may hold the key to healthy aging. In our…
Using data collected from 18 chimpanzee research sites, a newly published study shows that chimps engage in violent and sometimes lethal behavior regardless of human…
A new study from the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research reveals how the eye of a zebrafish larva can already distinguish between prey and…
A new study from Yale University shows that bigger babies do have an increased risk of autism, while smaller babies are more likely to develop…
A newly published study details how scientists were able to successfully ‘reset’ human pluripotent stem cells to a fully pristine state. Researchers at EMBL-EBI have…
Working with fruit flies, UCLA biologists showed that increasing the amount of the AMPK gene in fruit flies’ intestines increased their lifespans by about 30…
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute have discovered how pigment cells arise and interact to form the ‘zebra’ pattern in zebrafish. The zebrafish, a small…
Several newly published studies reveal that flies, worms, and humans share ancient patterns of gene expression. Although separated by hundreds of millions of years of…
Scientists from the MRC Center for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Edinburgh have grown a fully functional organ from scratch in a living animal…
A team of scientists from Yale and Columbia universities has shed new light on the mechanics of the division of cells that makes life possible….
Researchers from the WISSARD project have discovered an active ecosystem of microorganisms that live beneath the Antarctic ice sheet, converting ammonium and methane into the…
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute reveal that a single factor can reset the immune system of mice to a state likely similar to what…
New research from Virginia Tech reveals that plants may use a newly discovered molecular language to communicate with each other, opening the door to a…
Scientists have identified a previously unknown component of the immune system, discovering that bacterial virulence factors can not only be neutralized by antibodies, but they…
After more than 50 years of research, biologists now have a picture of the molecular machines that allow the lambda virus to insert or remove…