The nationwide experiment will initially include around 100,000 volunteers.
Neighboring neurons can manipulate astrocytes.
A rash of deformed lambs eventually led to the creation of a cancer-fighting agent.
A new study is rewriting 50 years of biological dogma by suggesting that mature blood cells develop much more rapidly from stem cells than previously thought.
Adipogenesis in mice has alternating genetic requirements throughout the animals’ lives.
An upcoming clinical trial aims to correct for a disease of fragile bones in affected babies before they are born.
Four types of gut bacteria found in babies’ stool may help researchers predict the future development of asthma.
Masculinization of the developing rodent brain leads to significant structural differences between the two sexes.
How male and female brains diverge is a hotly debated topic, but the study of model organisms points to differences that cannot be ignored.
Fetal specimens collected by commercial whalers offer insights into how whales may have evolved their specialized hearing organs.
Biologist Christopher Coe answers readers’ questions about the prescient organ.