For the first time, researchers at Umeå University have observed the same type of programmed cell death in microalgae as in humans. The discovery, published in Nature Communications, shows that this ...

For the first time, researchers at Umeå University have observed the same type of programmed cell death in microalgae as in humans. The discovery, ...

From a distance, Biosphere 2 emerges from the cacti and creosote of the Sonoran desert like a gleaming oasis, a colony of ...

A new theory suggests that cultural systems dictated how human beings survived and not genetics, hinting at adaptability and ...

Some human organs, such as kidneys and lungs, have back-ups. Some can be lost with little consequence—the spleen, for example ...

In 1970, Richard Blakemore noticed bacteria he had taken from Woods Hole in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, behaving strangely. The bacteria followed the pull of a magnet. They were the first of their kind ...

Johnson’s Shut-Ins features a natural water park where the Black River cascades over and around ancient volcanic rock. Taum Sauk boasts the highest point in Missouri and a spectacular waterfall.

The Atlas blue butterfly, with a record-breaking 229 pairs of chromosomes, is helping scientists unravel mysteries of ...

The ALBORADA Drug Discovery Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom ...

The research is opening new frontiers in pest control and evolutionary biology. An international group of scientists has uncovered a strange tubular structure within Profftella, a bacterium that lives ...

Cell biology is the discipline of biological sciences that studies the structure, physiology, growth, reproduction and death of cells. Research in cell biology uses microscopic and molecular tools and ...

The biological study of species offers no equivalent to such transmutation. An individual which belongs to a given species ...