A new study from Bar-Ilan University shows that one of sleep's core functions originated hundreds of millions of years ago in ...

One of the biggest quests in biology is understanding how every cell in an animal's body carries an identical genome yet still gives rise to a kaleidoscope of different cell types and tissues. A ...

“Expression tells us what cells do, but regulatory DNA tells us where they come from, how they develop, and which germ layer ...

Learn how mapping gene-control switches in an ancient sea anemone reveals how identical DNA can produce many different cell ...

Dlc1 deletion affects cardiac differentiation in mouse embryonic stem cells by activating the canonical Wnt pathway ...

Now a team of Brazilian scientists has put that tradition through a modern stress test: standardized extracts, controlled ...

Long before memory problems appear, your brain may already be losing neurons. That is the unsettling message from new work by ...

A new computational model of the brain based closely on its biology and physiology has not only learned a simple visual ...

The owner of a rescued lab dog considers if insights gleaned through animal research are enough to justify the practice.

Scientists have found that combining silybin with carvedilol works far better against liver fibrosis than either drug alone.

Computers found what human experts missed: a divide between aging biology research and patient care that decades of funding ...

Medical experiments on research dogs could be phased out soon — a change that’s based as much on science as ethics.