Credit: Photo/Video: Institute of Virology/Vetmeduni Vienna Some newly born piglets shiver even when they are kept warm. So-called "shaking piglets" have symptoms that resemble those...
Credit: Ali Yadollahpour et al., Bentham Science Publishers Radiotherapy is an important method in treatment of tumors, but it can be held responsible for biological...
Large-scale changes to the structure of the genome are often seen in cancer cells. Scientists at the Babraham Institute in Cambridge, UK, have found a...
Credit: Dr James Morris Over 7 million tonnes of mollusc shells are discarded by the seafood industry each year as unwanted waste - and the...
Credit: Mr Itaru Takaku. Ribbon halfbeak are a species of fish with the ability to fly above the sea surface - but unlike true 'flying...
Credit: Dr Per Hedenström Bats catch food 'on the wing' without touching the ground, but how do they do it? A new study by Per...
Credit: Ms Pernille V Troelsen When dinosaurs ruled the land, plesiosaurs ruled the oceans. Famous for their incredibly long necks - some of which were...
Credit: Goldbogen Lab, Hopkins Marine Station Humpback whales feed from a range of species that have adapted to escape their fate in a variety of...
Credit: Dr Nick Pullen You might think that plants grow according to how much nutrition, water and sunlight they are exposed to, but new research...
Credit: Muller et al., Malaria Journal, 2017' Removing the flowers of an invasive shrub from mosquito-prone areas might be a simple way to help reduce...
Vasoconstriction must be balanced with vasodilation, particularly in the arterioles that supply tissues with blood. Endothelial cells protrude through holes in the internal elastic lamina...
Credit: © Photo Museum Ulm Ancient mitochondrial DNA from the femur of an archaic European hominin is helping to resolve the complicated relationship between modern...
Geneva, 4 July 2017: Embryo quality has long been considered the main determinant of implantation and pregnancy in IVF. Morphology - a visual assessment of...
Geneva, 4 July 2017: IVF embryos whose cells have mixed chromosomal profiles - one normal, another abnormal - still have the potential to implant in...
Credit: Giovanni Bindellini Little is known about the origin and early evolution of the Notosuchia, hitherto unknown in the Jurassic period. New research on fossils...
