We traveled to Africa to visit Algeria, where we saw the Sahara Desert, drank foamy tea, ate bread and experienced the change ...

A first-ever analysis of the whole Greenland shark genome gives researchers a couple of clues to their longevity.

(Deletes reference in paragraph 10 to pending book in 2023 ... Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is a progressive illness that ...

A consortium of Austrian research groups from the University of Vienna, MedUni Vienna and Technikum Wien, together with ...

A growing body of work suggests that cell metabolism — the chemical reactions that provide energy and building materials — ...

Environmental stress in evolution can be reframed as a powerful engine of innovation, not simply a barrier to survival.

Our blood consists of many cell types that develop through different stages from a precursor type -- the blood stem cell. An international research team has now investigated the developmental pathways ...

In a groundbreaking study on the synthesis of cellulose -- a major constituent of all plant cell walls -- a team has captured images of the microscopic process of cell-wall building continuously over ...

"By testing 'human-equivalent' photoreceptors in pigs, we can get a better sense of what these cells can do if they are not ...

Simply put, the xenobots are an advanced version of “animal caps,” a well-known technique in developmental biology in which cells retain the ability to differentiate into other cells.