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Discovery rewriting the evolutionary history of the nervous system
A whole Drosophila larva expressing a fluorescent protein (red) in a subset of its sensory neurons. The inset shows one set of these neurons...
How exercise—interval training in particular—helps your mitochondria stave off old age
This video abstract depicts the findings of Robinson et al., who assessed the effects of three different exercise modalities on skeletal muscle adaptations in...
Vision, not limbs, led fish onto land 385 million years ago
A side view of a 3-D model of Tiktaalik in a murky waterway in the Devonian, 385 million years ago, looking out above the...
Detailed chemical structure of P22 virus resolved
Complete capsid of bacteriophage P22 generated with validated atomic models that were derived from the high-resolution cryoEM density map. Credit: C.Hryc and the Chiu...
Diabetes drug may be effective against deadly form of breast cancer, study suggests
Compared to a control (left), epalrestat treatment (right) reduces the number of metastatic tumors (arrowheads) in the lungs of mice injected with human basal-like...
Caffeine boosts enzyme that could protect against dementia
Indiana University scientists have identified 24 compounds that increase the brain's production of the enzyme NMNAT2, which helps prevent the formation of these tangles...
Americans are having sex less often, new study shows
According to a new study, Americans who were married or living together had sex 16 fewer times per year in 2010-2014 compared to 2000-2004.Image...
Yellow cabs for safer rides
Researchers have found an explicit link between the colour of a taxi and its accident rate. Image Credit:Flickr/momotosaur
A recent study led by researchers...
When less is essential to keep the brain going
Fluorescence image of the abdominal segments in a ventral ganglion of Drosophila larva. The synaptic contacts and the cell nuclei are stained with Bruchpilot...
First underwater video footage of the True’s beaked whale
Breaching True´s beaked whales (Image credit: Dylan Walker)
The True's beaked whale is a deep-diving mammal so rarely seen that it often defies recognition at...
Brain architecture alters to compensate for depression
These are brain scans of chronically depressed patients before and during treatment. Left: Before treatment, depressed patients had a thicker cortex in the frontal,...
