Bamboo sharks still developing in their egg cases respond to a predator presence by ceasing movement and even breathing.
Bamboo sharks still developing in their egg cases respond to a predator presence by ceasing movement and even breathing.
A drug applied to the ears of deaf mice has prompted the regrowth of noise-damaged hair cells and resulted in slight improvements in the animals’ hearing.
Wrinkled skin on our fingers after long soaks in water may have made human ancestors more dexterous with aquatic tasks.
Reprogrammed stem cells are not attacked by the immune system, or are they?
Researchers uncover weekly and monthly rhythms of sodium retention and excretion in participants of space simulations.
Elwood Jensen, whose research inspired new treatments for breast cancer, has passed away at age 92.
Despite decades of work, compounds in frog skins have failed to yield new antibiotics. Why?
Carl Woese, the discoverer of the third domain of life, has passed away at age 84.
Patterns of cell death aid in the formation of beneficial wrinkles during the development of bacterial biofilms.
In the final chapter of his book on the origins of vertebrate sex, author and paleontologist John Long pays homage to the humble placoderm, which got the erotic ball rolling.