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The third-place winner of the 2022 Nikon Small World in Motion competition features sea anemone cells.

Nearly 50 million birds have been culled amid efforts to mitigate the spread of the virus, which continues to ravage the Northern Hemisphere.

Optimizing organoid growth using pure, highly active, and consistent growth factors.

The geneticist’s accomplishments include sequencing Neanderthal DNA and leading the project that identified a new species of hominin, the Denisovans.

The second-place winner of the 2022 Nikon Small World in Motion competition shows a 12-hour time-lapse of labeled cells.

The broken-wing display, in which birds fake being wounded to protect their nests from predators, is found across the avian phylogenetic tree, a study finds.

All multicellular creatures interact with bacteria, but some have taken the relationship to another level with highly specialized structures that house, feed, […]

Specialized structures in plants and animals help attract and mediate communication with bacterial symbionts.

The key to averting cataclysmic events, such as pandemics, climate change, and mass extinction of species, lies partly in what’s on our plates.

Try your hand at a sciency brainteaser.

Researchers overseeing the clinical trial for the first FDA-approved oral contraceptive claimed the drug gave the Puerto Rican participants power over their […]

Take a break from the bench to puzzle and peruse

The MIT biologist studies how RNA molecules self-assemble and the role these accumulations may play in diseases such as ALS and Huntington’s.

A survey of more than 200 whale skulls has unveiled bursts of evolution over the past 50 million years.

It's not clear whether, or how, the organisms might play a role in disease pathology.

In this webinar, Gareth Rogers will discuss how mass photometry and automated mass photometry work using case studies that evaluated the oligomeric status of […]

Polluted air impedes the trees' ability to read one another's signals, a study finds.

Scientists study pluripotent stems cells to understand early development and how to use them in regenerative medicine, disease modeling, and drug discovery.

This year’s top winner of the 2022 Nikon Small World in Motion contest shows cells migrating through a zebrafish embryo.

Researchers say there may be similar, human genes whose effects on lifespan vary by sex.

King Charles III has a long history of promoting homeopathic or alternative medical treatments not supported by scientific evidence.

Recent studies have lent support for a variety of hypotheses explaining the debilitating symptoms affecting millions of people after SARS-CoV-2 infection.  

The Biogen-developed treatment, called lecanemab, appears to have a more clear-cut effect on slowing the disease than the company’s previous Alzheimer’s […]

Mahi-mahi were more likely to be eaten and less likely to spawn after being exposed to sublethal concentrations of oil, raising concerns about the risks […]

This year’s awards recognize work on integrins, noninvasive prenatal screening, and COVID-19 data tracking.