Purdue University scientists have discovered a key mechanism that regulates how plants develop chloroplasts, essential ...

An analysis of a 30,000-year-old fossil vulture from Central Italy has revealed for the first time that volcanic rock can preserve microscopic details in feathers -- the first ever record of such a ...

Prototaxites, an extinct organism from the Devonian period, has been thought to be a fungus since its first fossil was ...

Hundreds of animals, from tiny ants to mighty hippos, are shaping the Earth's surface as powerfully as floods and storms. These animals effectively act as landscape engineers, reorganizing soils and ...

Friedreich’s ataxia (FRDA) is a rare early-onset degenerative disease that affects both the central and peripheral nervous systems, and other extraneural tissues, mainly the ... patients and was later ...

Banish tissue fragments without the need for a lint roller. We’ve all been there: opening up the washing machine expecting to pull out a pile of perfectly laundered clothing only to find shreds of ...

In the planthopper, miR-263a facilitates rice stripe virus accumulation through targeting a cathepsin B-like gene to inhibit apoptosis in midgut epithelial cells. Upon insect saliva secretion, ...

Tuft cells constitutively express IL-25 to sustain ILC2 homeostasis in the intestine, but mechanisms driving IL-25 secretion have been unclear. Here, Feng et al. find that tuft cells express IL ...

Simply put, the xenobots are an advanced version of “animal caps,” a well-known technique in developmental biology in which cells retain the ability to differentiate into other cells.

Soft tissue sarcoma (STS) is a type of cancerous tumor that can grow in the body’s soft tissues. If it occurs in the thigh, it may feel like a person has a lump in their thigh, though symptoms ...

This process converts the compound into elemental mercury, which can easily evaporate, significantly reducing its presence in the animals’ tissues and the environment. Tests indicated that the ...