As nearly one in six couples experience fertility issues, in-vitro fertilization (IVF) is an increasingly common form of ...

A next-generation drug tested in yeast was found to extend lifespan and slow aging by influencing a major growth-control pathway. Researchers also uncovered an unexpected role for agmatinases, enzymes ...

All cells need to sense and respond to their environment, to know when to activate genes, build proteins, and carry out their ...

In a groundbreaking study, UC Santa Cruz researchers have shown that developing brain tissue exhibits spontaneous activity ...

I still remember when several of my science teachers, both in matric and in FSc, would skip certain chapters in the text, not because they did not contain useful information, or because they were not ...

“Consciousness should not be deemed as an ‘all-or-nothing’ cognitive function but rather as a graded and multi-dimensional ...

“Our results reveal a fascinating choreography inside the hair follicle," said paper author professor Inês Sequeira.

Light-sensitive stem cells let bristleworms grow their eyes for life, shedding new light on how vision evolved.

As you’d expect, a quarter century of data shows it really helps to be born with lucky biology. The neuroscientists found a ...

Researchers at Helmholtz Munich, the Technical University of Munich and the LMU University Hospital Munich uncovered a mechanism that protects nerve cells from premature cell death, known as ...

Researchers at Helmholtz Munich, the Technical University of Munich and the LMU University Hospital Munich uncovered a mechanism that protects nerve cells from premature cell death, known as ...

Scientists found that adult bristleworm eyes grow continuously thanks to a rim of neural stem cells similar to those in ...