After 6 months in orbit, Caenorhabditis elegans return to Earth—alive and well.
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Researchers find that newts are capable of regenerating body parts well into old age.
Full Professor and Senior Research Group Leader, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases. Age: 42
Cut off a newt’s tail or a leg, or remove a lens from its eye, and it grows back. However, whether newts can continue to do this throughout their lives, or lose the ability as they get older, has remained a mystery. Now, in an experiment spanning 16
Tagging antibodies with rare earth metals instead of fluorescent molecules turns a veteran technique into a high-throughput powerhouse.
Scientists are beginning to discover myriad strategies tumors use to avoid attacks by anti-cancer drugs.
Lynn Margulis, an innovative thinker who proposed symbiosis as a major mechanism for speciation, passed away last week.
A team of paleontologists is racing to recover dozens of fossilized whale skeletons from the site of a road building excavation in northern Chile.
Traits that help one sex but hurt the other are not sufficient for maintaining genetic variation.
Scientists track changes in bacterial genomes during a hospital outbreak to discover potential pathogenesis genes.
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