In 1799, during his explorations along the Orinoco River, German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt “stayed with a local ...

Take a look around your home and you'll find yourself surrounded by familiar comforts-photos of family and friends on the ...

Researchers have discovered a new type of neuron that plays a fundamental role in recognition memory -- how the brain registers the difference between new and familiar objects and forms long-term ...

In their study published in Nature Communications, researchers identified an unusual type of brain cell they named “ovoid ...

Take a look around your home and you'll find yourself surrounded by familiar comforts—photos of family and friends on the ...

In what’s been called a world first, consumers in the UK are now able to buy a pet treat made with lab-grown meat.

Rhobo6, a light microscopy probe, gives scientists an unprecedented look at the extracellular matrix -- the collection of organized molecular structures that fills the spaces between cells in our ...

In new research published this week, a team led by Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) scientists reveals that symbiotic bacteria often accompany single-celled protists in the ocean’s upper layer. Some ...

Researchers found that newborn immune cells regenerate heart tissue by producing thromboxane. Mimicking this process in ...

She was a media sensation in the late 1990s, but not much has been mentioned about Dolly, the first cloned sheep.

A research team at the Institut de Neurociències of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (INc-UAB) has developed a new ...

Newborns with heart complications can rely on their newly developed immune systems to regenerate cardiac tissues, but adults aren’t so lucky. After a heart attack, most adults struggle to regenerate ...