Tag: Developmental/Reproductive Biology

Credit: Marcelo O. Gonzaga Setting off a startling chain of events, a parasitoid wasp can force a spider to weave ...

Bottom Line: Cigarette use was lower among pregnant women in the United States (8 percent) than among nonpregnant women (14.3 ...

An exceptional strategy when winter comesCredit: Yann Kolbeinsson When winter comes, populations of red-neck phalarope from the Western Palearctic migrate ...

Using a computational model, researchers were able to explain, predict, and even manipulate the regeneration of the flatworm bodyCredit: Alexis ...

Credit: Kostantinos Stamoulis  Researchers from the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa (UH Mānoa) and the State of Hawai'i Department of ...

How genome doubling influences key crop plantsCredit: Joel Sharbrough/Colorado State University When humans are born, we inherit one set of ...

In a series of studies that volleyed between large databases and research in zebrafish, Vanderbilt investigators have discovered a link ...

Credit: Copyright: CNES/Airbus; DigitalGlobe.  Coral reefs worldwide are threatened by a variety of human impacts. Fishing is among the most ...

Researchers propose a model that offers a biological explanation for why childhood trauma is linked to PTSD in some -- ...

Credit: Albin Andersson The insecticide clothianidin affects different species of bees in different ways. While it has no demonstrably negative ...

Credit: Raphael Ritson-Williams Climate change and ocean warming threaten coral reefs and disrupt the harmonious relationship between corals and their ...

Researchers from Queen Mary University of London and University College London have developed a new approach to repair defects in ...

Researchers have defined the roles of various cells in the bone marrow that are thought to control the fate of ...

Previously untapped information sheds light on extinction timelines for mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibiansCredit: Species360 Conservation Science Alliance Despite volumes ...

Family quarrels in seeds reveal the ways parents and offspring sometimes evolve in conflicting directions It's spring, finally -- and ...

New research advances the possibility of regenerating cardiac tissue after a heart attackCredit: Wang Lab/Boston Children's Hospital and Nature Communications ...

Credit: Virginia Tech If you've ever spent some time in the Caribbean, you might have noticed that humans are not ...

There is an important association between maternal cigarette smoking cessation during pregnancy and risk of preterm birth, according to a ...

Synthetic biologists add tunable, analog-to-digital converter to their toolkitCredit: Rice University HOUSTON -- (April 18, 2019) -- Synthetic biologists have ...

The human genome is fascinating. Once predicted to contain about a hundred thousand protein-coding genes, it now seems that the ...