During embryonic development, two different cascades of genetic signals determine whether the embryo’s primordial gonad will become testes or ovaries,...
Although most early dinosaurs were vegetarian, there were surprising differences in the way that these animals tackled eating a plant-based...
Orangutans, mice, and horses are covered with it, but humans aren’t. Why we have significantly less body hair than most...
An international research group has for the first time reconstructed ancestors dating back 2.6 billion years of the well-known CRISPR-Cas...
Mass coral bleaching events are making it harder for some species of reef fish to identify competitors, new research reveals....
Before any physical conflict, people assess their opponent’s features to determine if the ideal tactical response is to fight, flee...
A study carried out at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC) heralds a paradigm change in the field of...
A ground-breaking twist to the CRISPR tool—aka “genetic scissors”—is being put to use to edit plant genomes by scientists from...
As cells perform their everyday functions, they turn on a variety of genes and cellular pathways. MIT engineers have now...
A new method can illuminate the identities and activities of cells throughout an organ or a tumor at unprecedented resolution,...
Unprecedented views of the interior of cells and other nanoscale structures are now possible thanks to innovations in expansion microscopy....
New research in the journal Nature Aging takes a page from the field of renewable energy and shows that genetically...
