Life reconstruction of Qilinyu along with Guiyu and Entelognathus in Silurian waters.
Credit: Dinghua Yang
Where did our jaws come from? The question is more complicated than it seems, because not all jaws are the same. In a new article, published...
Researchers at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA have, for the first time, coaxed human stem cells to become sensory interneurons -- the cells that give us our sense of...
Fungi are a diverse group of organisms that are ever-present in daily life; from the yeast used to ferment beer and the mushrooms at the supermarket to the pathogen responsible for athlete's foot. Many species of fungus grow by...
American bullfrog at the E.E. Wilson Wildlife Management Area in the Willamette Valley.
Credit: Photo by Lynn Ketchum, OSU
When exposed to potential predators as an embryo, the invasive American bullfrog becomes harder to kill when it becomes a tadpole, according...
This is a hollow-luminal iPL colony.
Credit: Lily Guo
A modified version of iPS methodology, called interrupted reprogramming, allows for a highly controlled, potentially safer, and more cost-effective strategy for generating progenitor-like cells from adult cells. As demonstrated November 30 in...
A dog from the University of Washington Conservation Canines program on a research boat following southern resident killer whales.
Credit: Center for Whale Research
A multi-year survey of the nutritional, physiological and reproductive health of endangered southern resident killer whales suggests...
Scientists at the Center for Infection and Immunity (CII) in the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health have developed the first diagnostic platform that can simultaneously screen for all known human pathogenic bacteria as well as markers for...
Handwashing is shaping communities of bacteria that live and grow in the plumbing of domestic sinks, scientists have found.
In the largest study of sink bacteria conducted outside of hospitals, scientists at the University of Reading discovered communities of similar...
A new study led by scientists at the University of Oxford has found that small DNA molecules known as plasmids are one of the key culprits in spreading the major global health threat of antibiotic resistance.
Using a novel experimental...
The development of eye freckles correlated with increasing age, lifetime number of sunburns and a history of severe sunburns resulting in blisters, report researchers.
Credit: © Africa Studio / Fotolia
In a study well-timed for summer, vision scientists have found that...
This story begins in the kelp forest and ends with a very important climate change message: All is not lost—at least not for purple sea urchins.
A new study by UC Santa Barbara marine biologists demonstrates that for females of...
