A new comparative analysis across mammals brings order to previously ambiguous results on the effects that maternal stress has on the developing offspring….
With resistance growing to existing antibiotics, there is a vital and urgent need for the discovery and development of new antibiotics that are cost effective.
Optogenetics is a relatively new technique that involves the use of light to manipulate nerve and muscle cells in a living organism. Similar approaches are…
Invasive cells deploy a trick to break through tissues and spread to other parts of the body, researchers report.
It is a gruesome spectacle that meets the eyes of Prasad Aiyar as he looks down the microscope. The doctoral candidate from India, who came to Jena to do his…
Homing desert ants are able to distinguish unambiguous from ambiguous landmarks and include this information in their behavioral responses when returning to…
When an organism develops, large numbers of cells migrate from place to place in order to form tissue and organs in the right spots. In order to be able to…
Excess carbon dioxide, emitted by burning fossil fuels like coal and petroleum, is one of the most important factors in driving global warming. While the world…
Every 30 seconds someone in the world dies of lung cancer. Lung cancer metastases that can develop after a primary tumour are particularly unpredictable and…
Communication is often mired in contradiction – also in the brain. Neuroscientists at IST Austria were now able to resolve one such contradiction.
University of Delaware professor Patrick Gaffney and alumnus Keith Bayha, a research associate with the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, have…
In the past, physicians observed these blood vessel-like structures in the clinic–a phenomenon called vascular mimicry, which is associated with some of the…
Columbia University biologists have revealed a mechanism by which bacterial cells in crowded, oxygen-deprived environments access oxygen for energy production,…
Spontaneous contractions of the digestive tract play an important role in almost all animals, and ensure healthy bowel functions. From simple invertebrates to…
It is one of the last great mysteries of science: Why do we sleep? Since all animals sleep, some biologists suggest that it is to save energy by reducing our…
Malaria is caused by parasites transmitted by mosquito bite. The most dangerous form of malaria is malaria tropica. Left untreated, it is fatal in most cases….
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