Bioelectric Drugs Can Repair and Prevent Defects in Developing Frog Brains
Researchers suggest the discovery offers a roadmap for exploration of therapeutic drugs that could help repair birth defects in humans. Researchers led by biologists at…
Researchers suggest the discovery offers a roadmap for exploration of therapeutic drugs that could help repair birth defects in humans. Researchers led by biologists at…
New research led by scientists from Newcastle University and the University of Nottingham has shown that typical teenage behavior doesn’t just occur in young humans…
Showy peacock feathers, extravagant elk antlers, and powerful crayfish claws are just a few examples of the ostentatious animal extremes used to compete for and…
A team of evolutionary biologists, led by Dr. Rui Diogo at Howard University, USA, and writing in the journal Development, have demonstrated that numerous atavistic…
Cells that eventually become neurons (red, orange, and yellow spheres) migrate during embryonic development. The migrating baby neurons that build the spinal cord are color-coded…
Collaborative research has discovered a new function of a colon cancer gene that puts the brakes on several colon cancer activators. This finding may lead…
Using a hitchhiking weed, scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen reveal for the first time the mutation rate of a…
Yale researchers have developed a set of synthetic molecules that may help boost the strength of a key, virus-fighting protein. The protein, RIG-I, is an…
For hundreds of years, butterfly collecting has often inspired a special kind of fanaticism, spurring lengthy expeditions, sparking rivalries, and prompting some collectors to risk…
Two groups of highly venomous spiders might be seeing more of each other at family reunions. A new study led by San Diego State University…
All DNA is sealed within the cell’s nuclear membrane, which protects it from molecular marauders. But what happens when that protective envelope rips? Yale researchers…
Exactly 200 years ago, the Swedish scientist Jöns Jacob Berzelius discovered the trace element selenium, which he named after the goddess of the moon, Selene….
In the first study to predict whether different populations of the same plant species can adapt to climate change, scientists from the Max Planck Institute…
New research from UCLA details how diabetes in pregnancy affects baby’s heart, revealing that high levels of glucose keep cardiac cells from maturing normally. Researchers…
Scientists have long sought to unravel the molecular mysteries that make the human brain special: What processes drove its evolution through the millennia? Which genes…
A team of researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital has identified a reversible “master switch” on most developmental genes. The team unearthed this biological insight…
Two new research papers from Yale University reinforce the benefits of a novel therapy that hijacks the cell’s own protein degradation machinery to destroy cancer…
The first microscopic video of how a blood clot contracts at individual platelets provides biologists with a new look at a natural process of blood…