From guiding branching neurons in the developing brain to maintaining a healthy heartbeat, there seems to be no job that the immune cells can’t tackle.
Embedded within 3.95-billion-year-old rock, scientists have found graphite with a carbon signature that indicates biological activity.
Marine species survived rafting thousands of kilometers on debris swept into the water by the giant wave, scientists say.
Adding or removing water changes how stem cells differentiate.
Amphibians resist their own chemical defenses with amino acid modifications in the sequence for a target receptor.
OCT4 is necessary for blastocyst formation in the human embryo, researchers report.
Hundreds of samples from microbes living in the gut, skin, mouth, and vagina add to the human microbiome “fingerprint.”
Researchers are trying to recreate an extinct species of the lumbering reptiles by breeding closely related species that contain traces of the lost lineage’s DNA.
Bacterial strains in mice’s gut microbiomes mediated their pups’ risk for developing abnormal behaviors.
A study of a simple marine animal suggests that the common ancestor of cnidarians and bilaterians may have had three germ layers instead of two.
After implantation, the tissue developed blood vessels and became integrated into neuronal networks in the animals’ brains.
The nationwide experiment will initially include around 100,000 volunteers.
The 20-year project calls into question the conventional wisdom about the role plants will play in mitigating future climate change.
The US Senate narrowly approved the politician, who does not have a science background.
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