Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish carry one of the most unusual genomes in the animal kingdom, and a team at the University of ...

Freezing, retreating and steering clear of a fox-urine odor: that was the behavior of mice dosed with a synthetic cannabinoid ...

Intervertebral disc degeneration (IVDD), driven by progenitor cell loss and oxidative stress, remains a major clinical ...

Genes are not blueprints. When they hear that, many people ask, then what are they?They are a toolbox, Philip Ball ...

A conclusion that defies common sense“It’s all in your head (you’re just being soft, it’s a placebo) that your lower back ...

MIT researchers combined Raman microscopy with single-cell and spatial gene-expression measurements to identify biochemical patterns associated with cellular senescence without destroying the tissue ...

A Comprehensive Clinical Assessment of Visual Fatigue, Screen Ergonomics, Phototoxicity Myths, and Childhood Refractive ...

A genome-wide survey of lily heat shock transcription factors has identified LdHSFC1 as a heat-induced repressor that directly suppresses the key activator LdHSFA2 and reduces the plant's ability ...

The cells of higher organisms such as mammals, flies and fungi enclose their genetic material in a nucleus. A nuclear ...

For decades, scientists have been able to look at individual moments in the development of an embryo: a snapshot of a ...

Scientists have traced the development of a mouse embryo from its first two cells to the formation of organs, using a ...