During the early stages of life, organs do not just appear in their final form. They take shape through a process of ...

The human body and its organs are composed of a wide variety of cell types. Although all cells contain the same genes, they ...

A new study by Vanderbilt investigators has uncovered a previously unknown biological mechanism: how tissues detect and ...

It's not just snakes that shed. Animals like caterpillars, birds, and frogs do, too. Here's a list of 10 animals that shed.

Experiments in fruit fly larvae show that epidermal cells can communicate with sensory neurons to drive responses to pain.

Humans are the only species on Earth known to use language. They do this by combining sounds into words and words into ...

How big they are: The smallest plants, known as desmids and picozoa, are single-celled algae that are less than 0.0004 inches ...

At sufficiently high concentrations, some of the compounds called per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances self-organize into two ...