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Cut off the head of a three-banded panther worm and another will take its place — mouth, brain, and all. Cut off its tail and...

Three-banded panther worms are an incredibly impressive marine animal. Known scientifically as the acoel worm named Hofstenia miamia, these tiny animals that grow to only...

Prurigo nodularis (PN) is a chronic skin disease that affects an estimated 72 out of 100,000 people in the U.S. The disease disproportionately affects Black...

Scientists in Australia have used tin mono-sulfide (SnS) nanosheets to create the thinnest X-ray detector ever made, potentially enabling real-time imaging of cellular biology.Credit: Exciton...

By signing with the scholarly publisher and technology provider Pensoft, Contributions to Entomology - a journal by the Senckenberg German Entomological Institute - becomes the...

Stem cells are true multi-talents. They can develop into any cell type of an organism - in humans there are over 200 - and thus...

The membranes of cancer cells are more pliant than the membranes of normal cells. A research collaboration has discovered that cancer invasion and migration can...

Ischemia, which in modern Latin means, “staunching of blood,” is a medical condition in which the blood supply is cut off to different parts of...

Philadelphia, November 8, 2021 – As Black women continue to have the lowest breastfeeding initiation and duration rates in the United States, researchers examined factors...

A ground-breaking new, mobile phone app, ‘GrowthMonitor’ places the accurate measurement of children’s height in the hands of parents and carers. Preliminary data to be...

Children with kidney cancers continue to be diagnosed with larger and more advanced tumours in the UK and Ireland than in other Western European countries,...

Patients with two out of the three most common types of advanced breast cancer now have an average survival time of at least five years,...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- Polybrominated diphenyl ethers, or PBDEs, are a class of fire-retardant chemicals that are ubiquitous. They are found on upholstery, carpets, curtains, electronics, and...

New research, published in Scientific Reports by Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) postdoctoral fellow Karina Chavarria and colleagues, shows that bacterial communities in streams adjacent...

It is essential for cells to control precisely which of the many genes of their genetic material they use. This is done in so-called transcription...