Prehistoric human skeleton in the Chan Hol Cave near Tulúm on the Yucatán peninsula prior to looting by unknown cave divers.
Credit: Tom Poole, Liquid Jungle Lab
A prehistoric human skeleton found on the Yucatán Peninsula is at least...
For clues into how Myrmoteras executes its power-amplified strike, scientists examined the ants first under a microscope, then using micro computed tomography (micro-CT), a three-dimensional imaging system that uses X-rays to visualize the internal structures of small...
This is an orange clownfish, Amphiprion percula, living in symbiosis with a host anemone.
Credit: Alejandro Usobiaga
Just as when a camera lens comes into focus, the latest research published today sharpens understanding of the implications of ocean acidification...
A confocal image of a tadpole brain reveals dopaminergic (green) neurons, the type increased in typical kinship recognition, and GABAergic (red) neurons, those elevated in cases of expanded social kinship.
Credit: UC San Diego
A baby lamb is separated...
The virtual embryo offers predictions which cells express -- for example -- the genes even skipped (red) and twist (green). To appreciate the spatial distribution, researchers can look at the fly embryo from all angles.
Credit: Drosophila Virtual...
Motorized molecules that target diseased cells may deliver drugs to or kill the cells by drilling into the cell membranes. Scientists at Rice, Durham (U.K.) and North Carolina State universities have demonstrated them on cancer and other...
Bacteria (stock image).
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We have a symbiotic relationship with the trillions of bacteria that live in our bodies -- they help us, we help them. It turns out that they even speak the same...
This is a Weddell seal swimming in McMurdo Sound, Ross Sea, Antarctica.
Credit: Daniel P. Costa
When scientists at McMurdo Station in Antarctica have time off from their field work, they often pay a visit to three nearby wooden...
Diabetes concept (stock image). A new study found that despite harboring a powerful guardian gene, mice developed severe inflammation of the pancreas -- a precursor to type 1 diabetes -- after receiving antibiotics shortly after birth or...
Monkeys show reduced Parkinsonian symptoms following a donor-matched iPS cell-based therapy.
Credit: Misaki Ouchida, Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Kyoto University
One of the last steps before treating patients with an experimental cell therapy for the brain...
MRI of the brain. (stock image)
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In a letter to the New England Journal of Medicine, a Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) research team reports a remarkable treatment response in a patient participating in...
