Animal development requires successive changes in cell and tissue structures. To form complex 3D organs, cell shapes must adapt to...
Streams with ample connections to shallow groundwater flowpaths have greater microbial diversity and are more effective at preventing toxic forms...
The use of pesticides, while beneficial for global food security, wreaks havoc on natural ecosystems and human health. To address...
Human cells contain ribosomes, a complex machine that produces proteins for the rest of the body. Now the researchers have...
How long it takes for cells to close a fruit fly’s wound can tell us a lot about the healing...
The synthesis of proteins in the cell is a key process of life. By this means, the genetic code of...
by Kristen M. Rosamond and Nico Arcilla Among the fastest-declining birds in the world, African vultures battle many of the...
The evolutionary success of the first large predators on land was driven by their need to improve as killers, researchers...
An international team of scientists from China, the U.S. and Europe has studied new fossils of the marine reptile Dinocephalosaurus...
Iron is a micronutrient for plants. Biologists from the Institute of Botany at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) describe in...
Chromatin is a unique DNA and protein complex that makes up the chromosomes. Specific proteins (histones) wind up the DNA...
Biomedical engineers at Duke University have uncovered a key link between the spread of antibiotic resistance genes and the evolution...
