The very cold, the merely chilled, and the colorful
Fluorescent calcium sensors in transgenic mice give a real-time readout of neuronal activity.
Watch as the astounding wood frog uses cellular cryopreservation tricks to freeze, thaw, and live to croak about it.
With dogged persistence and an unwillingness to entertain defeat, Bruce Beutler discovered a receptor that powers the innate immune response to infections—and earned his share of a Nobel Prize.
Animals and plants come in a dizzying array of colors. Current research is cracking into the remarkable structures behind nature's artistic display.
Some of these insidious viruses expertly subvert the host immune system, allowing their unhindered proliferation.
Researchers are working to understand how often-colorless biological nanostructures give rise to some of the most spectacular technicolor displays in nature.
Pro athletes can learn to parse a complicated moving visual scene faster than most.
Domestic cats kill billions of birds and mammals every year, making them a top threat to US wildlife.
A putative ion channel integral to mammalian hearing turns out to be an elusive salt-sensing chemoreceptor in nematode worms.