Most of us learned about butterfly metamorphosis as a kid—a wriggly caterpillar molts its skin to form a tough chrysalis...
An international team of scientists, including researchers from Germany and the UK, have described a new species of ancient marine...
A key question that remains in biology and biophysics is how three-dimensional tissue shapes emerge during animal development. Research teams...
Microalgae such as the diatom Odontella aurita and the green alga Tetraselmis striata are especially suitable as “biofactories” for the...
Since the genetic code was first deciphered in the 1960s, our genes have seemed like an open book. By reading...
A new UC Riverside study demonstrates that calorie restriction doesn’t deter mice from exercising, challenging the belief that dieting drains...
Recent research at the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (IMBB) of the Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH), at...
Researchers have shown that a fluorescence detection system that doesn’t contain any lenses can provide highly sensitive detection of deadly...
Since the industrial revolution, microbes have successfully colonized one novel type of habitat after another: for example, marine oil spills,...
Researchers at Michigan State University have discovered two proteins that work together to determine the fate of cells in plants...
Every year, life-threatening invasive fungal infections afflict more than 2 million individuals globally. Mortality rates for these infections are high,...
New research from a team of genome scientists and DNA damage response experts breaks new ground in understanding the function...
