This is Lucy Kivlin and her baby Ginny.
Credit: University of Cambridge
When a parent and infant interact, various aspects of their behaviour can synchronise, including their gaze, emotions and heartrate, but little is known about whether their brain activity also...
Neonatal doctors and nurses know that preterm babies sometimes "tune out" and become unresponsive when they are overwhelmed.
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When newborn babies are under stress, their brains show a heightened response to pain, a new study has...
Stem cells (green) migrate into a three-day-old wound to repair it.
Credit: Laboratory of Mammalian Cell Biology and Development/The Rockefeller University
Scars may fade, but the skin remembers. New research from The Rockefeller University reveals that wounds or other harmful, inflammation-provoking...
Sea sponge.
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New research led by the University of Bristol has resolved evolutionary biology's most-heated debate, revealing it is the morphologically simple sponges, rather than the anatomically complex comb jellies, which represent the oldest lineage of...
Diversity of coral forms shows rich underwater life found on healthy coral reefs.
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New research has found that, despite the extensive damage to coral in recent events, there are still 100 reefs on the Great Barrier...
A "navigational map view" of a section of a mouse brain. Like the map view of an Earth imaging program, this image of a brain section takes cues from actual imaging performed with highest-energy X-rays at a synchrotron and...
A blue whale dives into the water off the California coast.
Credit: Craig Hayslip, Oregon State University Marine Mammal Institute
Blue whales are the largest animals in the world, with bodies that can weigh as much as 25 elephants and extend...
This is an Anopheles gambiae mosquito being injected with hemolymph for a malaria research study.
Credit: NIAID
Using genetically modified (GM) mosquitoes to reduce or prevent the spread of infectious diseases is a new but rapidly expanding field of investigation. Among...
Biofilms are multicellular communities formed by densely-packed microbes that are often associated with persistent infections. Steep gradients of nutrients and oxygen form in these crowded structures. The human pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa produces molecules called phenazines that help it to...
Gene drive systems distort the rule that there is a 50:50 chance of a gene copy being passed on. This promotes the inheritance of a particular copy of a gene from the parent to offspring. When coupled to a...
Ultimately, reducing the transfer of antibiotic-resistance plasmids could help preserve the potency of antibiotics. (stock image)
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Antibiotics are commonly used around the world to cure diseases caused by bacteria. But as the World Health Organization...
