Tag: Molecular biology
Visualizing the inside of cells at previously impossible resolutions provides vivid...
Jeremy Berg, University of Pittsburgh
All life is made up of cells several magnitudes smaller than a grain of...
Helping the liver regenerate itself could give patients with end-stage liver...
Satdarshan Monga, University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences
The liver is known for its ability to regenerate. It can completely...
Yorkicystis, the 500 million-year-old relative of starfish that lost its skeleton
Samuel Zamora, Instituto Geológico y Minero de España (IGME - CSIC)
After four years of digging for fossils in...
The 2021 Nobel Prize for medicine helps unravel mysteries about how...
Steven D. Munger, University of Florida
Humans rely on our senses to tell us about the world. Which way...
Lab–grown embryos and human–monkey hybrids: Medical marvels or ethical missteps?
Sahotra Sarkar, The University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts
In Aldous Huxley’s 1932 novel “Brave New...
Bloodthirsty tsetse flies nurse their young, one live birth at a...
Geoff Attardo, University of California, Davis
Tsetse flies are bloodthirsty. Natives of sub-Saharan Africa, tsetse flies can transmit the microbe Trypanosoma when they take a...
Discovery of a surprise multitasking gene helps explain how new functions...
Katherine L. Petrie, University of California San Diego and Justin Meyer, University of California San Diego
Evolutionary biologists like us try to figure out how...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
