Biology
New fossil evidence upends long-held assumptions about how mammals gave birth
A fossilized growth signal in the bones of a 236-million-year-old cynodont may have revealed one of the earliest known examples...
Scientists create innovative technique to 3D-print blood vessel networks
More than 100,000 people in the United States are currently waiting for an organ transplant, while another potential recipient joins...
Over a decade of Seattle suburban observations reveals where sensitive birds avoid
A nearly 30-year bird survey in Washington’s Puget Sound lowlands has delivered a message that could reshape how residential development...
Sensory overload impairs female treefrogs’ ability to choose mates
Female Cope’s gray treefrogs appear to suffer from the same problem that confronts humans in crowded stores, overflowing streaming menus...
Microplastics Contaminate Texas Oysters, Triggering Biochemical Stress and Physiological Damage
Microplastic pollution has reached another critical biological threshold along the Texas Gulf Coast, where oysters are showing biochemical stress and...
Climbing stairs may lower the risk of premature death
Taking the stairs may do more than get people from one floor to another: it could substantially reduce their risk...
Study finds extreme weather increasingly predicts North American bird species distributions
Extreme weather is redrawing the map of North American birdlife—and conventional biodiversity models may be missing the scale of the...
Your Photos Could Help Scientists Make New Discoveries
A photograph uploaded to iNaturalist may look like an ordinary snapshot of a strange-looking arachnid, but thousands of such images...
Researchers uncover new control mechanism for decades-old leukemia drug
image: Degradation of NUDT5 (Artistic representation, © Tuan-Anh Nguyen / Wolfgang Däuble) view more Credit: © Tuan-Anh Nguyen / Wolfgang Däuble...
New Neuropsychiatric Journal Illuminates Brain-Behavior Links in Mental and Neurological Health
Despite extraordinary advances in biomedical science, neuropsychiatric disorders continue to impose one of the largest health burdens on societies worldwide....
First 3D Map Reveals Mouse Ovary Counts Its Own Eggs
A Complete 3D Map of the Aging Ovary Reveals That Egg Activation Is Carefully Regulated The mammalian ovary may be...
Entropy theory offers new view of critical illness beyond organ dysfunction
A new editorial in Intelligent Medicine is proposing an unconventional way to understand critical illness: not only as a failure...
NUS researchers engineer color-sensing yeast in scientific breakthrough
Baker’s yeast, the microorganism behind bread, beer and numerous biotechnology processes, has been given a new kind of vision. Researchers...
Immune Cell Differences Predict Skin Cancer Treatment Outcomes
Melanoma patients may carry clues in their blood that reveal how well their immune systems are responding to immunotherapy, according...
H6PD Identified as Parkinson’s Causal Gene Linking ER-Mitochondria Disruption to Neurodegeneration
Parkinson’s disease has long been understood as the product of a complicated interplay between inherited susceptibility and environmental stress. Yet...
Scientists Engineer Cellular Membrane Transport
A team at the University of Stuttgart has developed a programmable DNA origami nanosyringe that can mechanically transport molecules across...
Study Could Reshape Understanding of GLP-1 Drugs
For decades, obesity medicines were judged largely by how effectively they reduced appetite. Many could help people lose weight, but...
UC San Diego, County Track New World Screwworm Risk as Pest Returns
The New World screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite once responsible for tens of millions of dollars in annual livestock losses in...
Lorenz Studer Begins Presidency of International Society for Stem Cell Research
The International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) has announced that Lorenz Studer, M.D., has begun his term as president,...
Simulations reveal one ant can set an entire colony in motion
A single ant can trigger a synchronized wave of activity across an entire colony, sending hundreds or even thousands of...