When two cells "talk" to each other, they often do so through tiny channels called electrical synapses. Unlike chemical ...

A new study, led by the University of Vienna and the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven, shows how the eyes of adult ...

A new study, led by the University of Vienna and the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven, shows how the eyes of adult ...

A new study, led by the University of Vienna and the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven, shows how the eyes of adult marine bristleworms continue to grow throughout life – driven by a ring of ...

The beauty of the DNA code is that organisms interpret it unambiguously. Each three-letter nucleotide sequence, or codon, in ...

A TOR-targeting cancer drug unexpectedly extends yeast lifespan through a newly discovered metabolic feedback loop.

From the beginning of life on Earth, microbes, small but influential single-celled organisms, have shaped the environment ...

New research on fern vascular systems reveals how developmental constraints don't just limit evolution—they generate new ...

Bacteria rarely feel impressive in everyday life, but when you zoom in, all the way in, they dominate Earth in ways that are ...

Tissue expansion, originally developed for super-resolution imaging, has become a foundation for expansion omics (ExO), a ...

Researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) found that circadian rhythms – the biological clocks of the body – ...