Microbiologists have discovered a new species of heat-loving amoeba that divides at 63 degrees Celsius (145 degrees Fahrenheit) and remains motile up to...
Scientists have long treated the brain as a single organ that grows from one pool of early cells. Stanford University neuroscientist Kyle Loh and colleagues...
New research reveals that 3.4 billion years ago (Archean Eon), ancient microbes relied on molybdenum — a metal that was vanishingly rare at the time...
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is traditionally considered irreversible. However, a team of scientists led by Case Western Reserve University, University Hospitals...
Hemifusomes constitute up to 10% of vesicular organelles at the cell periphery but do not engage in canonical endocytic pathways, according to a team of...
Paleontologists have examined a 183-million-year-old plesiosaur skeleton with well-preserved skin traces from around the tail and front flipper from the...
Scientists from Queen Mary University of London and the University of Hong Kong have created mouse stem cells capable of generating a fully developed mouse...
New research led by scientists from the University of Pennsylvania, Karolinska Institute and Linköping University provides a landscape view of the human...
Dubbed EndoMac progenitors, the newly-discovered type of cell has the potential to enhance the future of tissue repair and generation, according to a team...
Scientists from Baylor College of Medicine and elsewhere say they have discovered subfossils of ancient chromosomes in the remains of a female woolly mammoth...
New research led by the the University of Wyoming, Laramie, provides additional evidence that tardigrade proteins eventually could be used to make life-saving...
New research led by University of Goettingen scientists provides evidence that the first multicellular streptophytes likely lived about a billion years...
The mouse is the most commonly used vertebrate experimental model in neuroscience research, and the new atlas paves the way for a greater understanding...
Around 2.4 billion years ago, the Great Oxidation Event caused fundamental changes to the chemistry of Earth’s surface environments. However, the effect...
Ferroptosis, which is caused by a buildup of iron in cells, appears to be a major mechanism of white matter injury in Alzheimer’s disease and vascular...
Asgard archaea (Asgardarchaeota) are considered to be the closest known relatives of eukaryotes, organisms (including animals, plants and fungi) whose...
Researchers from the Osaka City University, the Osaka Metropolitan University and the Bioproduction Research Institute have created a swimming synthetic...
