R3 Bio has a bold idea for replacing lab animals: genetically-engineered whole organ systems that lack a brain. The long-term ...

Plant immunity is largely initiated at the cellular level, with each cell capable of autonomous detection and response, while ...

Can the bend of a banana give us insight into cancer? What does the shape of a rice grain have to do with infertility? The proteins that give plants their shape and structure are also involved in ...

Professor Bo Liu, Department of Plant Biology, holds an Arabidopsis plant while Professor Jawdat Al-Bassam, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, holds a model of the augmin protein complex.

The blobfish, once considered the ugliest animal in the world, has since had quite the redemption arc. Years after it was ...

An adult specimen of the comb jelly Mnemiopsis leidyi seen from above. In the center of the image, it is possible to ...

From whale hearts to giraffe tongues, explore how huge and tiny animal body parts really are, using everyday objects as your ...

The longest animal on Earth isn’t what you think. It’s a drifting, gelatinous predator whose reach reshapes how we define ...

Scientists have uncovered surprising complexity in a tiny sensory structure found in comb jellies, some of the oldest animals on Earth.

The platypus has long been one of nature’s most bewildering creatures. It lays eggs. It has a duck-like bill and a ...

News and commentary from the endocrinology world ...

A team in Germany has shown that mouse brain tissue can regain measurable signs of activity after being preserved in a ...