How-To Guide for Creating Mouse-Human Chimeric Embryos
The research enables far more accurate models of human development and disease and could help solve the shortage of organs for transplant. A year after…
The research enables far more accurate models of human development and disease and could help solve the shortage of organs for transplant. A year after…
Cuttlefish can remember what, where, and when specific events happened – right up to their last few days of life, researchers have found. The results,…
Research from Wellesley College shows that despite being a clonal insect species, weevils use gene regulation to adapt to new food sources and pass down…
Molecular geneticists have known for about a decade that genomic structural variants can play important roles in the adaptation and speciation of both plants and animals, but…
A new study from Tel Aviv University and the Weizmann Institute revealed that over the last 20,000-50,000 years birds have undergone a major extinction event,…
In an article published in PNAS, researchers affiliated with Butantan Institute describe the genome of Bothrops jararaca and suggest the origin of genes responsible for…
Researchers at Michigan State University are using pheromones, passive barriers, and the sea lampreys’ parasitic suction against them. Sea lampreys are a destructive invasive species…
A team of scientists has uncovered a system in the brain used in the processing of information and in the storing of memories — akin…
Nepalese craftsman, Chandra Bahadur Dangi, holds the record as the world’s shortest adult, at 54.6 cm (1 ft 9 ½ inches). The tallest human is…
The extraordinary diversity of insects and fishes, the most species-rich invertebrate and vertebrate groups in the animal kingdom, is partly due to the origin of…
Treating corals with a probiotic cocktail of beneficial bacteria increases survival after a bleaching event, according to new research. This approach could be administered in…
There is an urgent need for reporting of biomedical research on mammalian cells to be more standardized and detailed and for greater control and measurement…
Scientists have repurposed the genetic modification technology CRISPR to identify antibodies in patient blood samples in a move that could inspire a new class of…
Ever since humans began committing their view of the world to flat slabs of rock and papyrus, we had a sense that our mental maps…
A new approach to modifying microbes’ metabolic processes will speed up production of innovative bio-based fuels, materials, and chemicals. Researchers from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory…
Research from APC Microbiome Ireland (APC) at University College Cork (UCC) published on August 9, 2021, in the leading international scientific journal Nature Aging introduces…
Marine bacteria in the frigid waters of the Canadian Arctic are capable of biodegrading oil and diesel fuel, according to a new study published in Applied and…
Watching a mother mouse gather her pups into the family’s nest trains other female mice without pups to perform the same parenting task, a new…