We know that some animals are bilaterian—meaning they display bilateral symmetry—while others are not, but nature is rarely ...

Scientists found that embryonic skin cells “whisper” through faint mechanical tugs, using the same force-sensing proteins ...

Scientists have long sought to understand why sea spiders keep some of their most important organs in their legs.

Scientists at the University of Sydney have uncovered a malfunctioning version of the SOD1 protein that clumps inside brain ...

Researchers have long focused on the STING (Stimulator of Interferon Genes) pathway as a way to harness the immune system's ...

From the time we are conceived and through old age, genetic mutations accumulate in all our tissues, eluding the body's ...

Growing interest in health and the exposome—a person's collective environmental exposures—is spurring new funding and research initiatives. Talha Burki reports.

During animal development, cells divide and arrange themselves in a coordinated way, eventually forming the embryo. The cells ...