For me, the most fascinating part is the fact that such a group of animals managed to adapt to different habitats, which ...

In the hippocampus, a critical brain region for learning and memory, new cells emerge in some people into late adulthood, ...

How does the brain store knowledge so that you actually remember what you have learned the next day or even later? To find ...

Fred Hutch researchers have created a gene-expression map of glial cells of the tiny worm, C. elegans, adding the missing ...

Human testicles are much smaller, in proportion, to some of our primate cousins. Evolution can tell us why. But the size of ...

So much science starts with deciphering a genome, the blueprint for every being on Earth. With such roadmaps in hand, ...

After an injury, some flatworms can regrow almost every cell in their bodies, axolotls can rebuild entire limbs and parts of their brain, zebrafish can mend broken spinal cords and green anole ...

The team suspects that neurogenesis happens in other parts of the adult brain, too. In mice, new neurons are regularly made ...

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have shown that the "pacemaker" controlling yeast cell division lies inside the ...

Among animals that can regrow their detached limbs, Mexico’s axolotls stand out. These endangered amphibians can also regrow organs, including parts of its brain and heart. Now, biologists are ...

The motivation behind everything that animals do is to stay alive, at least until they have produced offspring. Any species ...