The secret to youthful appearance and repairing scars may lie in a microscopic skin structure humans share with pigs and ...

The IISER Pune team found that plants respond to the stress by activating autophagy, a process often described as the cell’s “clean-up crew” ...

Cats—unlike humans—are true carnivores: they must eat meat to survive because their bodies can't draw some essential ...

Bodies store hints about diets. Stable isotope analysis of tissues is widely used to reconstruct animal diets and food web relations – but results have the potential to be misleading, a new study ...

Your organs are constantly talking to each other in ways we’re only beginning to understand. Tapping into these communication ...

Whales are mighty. Blue whales, for example, aren’t only the largest animal on Earth, but as far as we know, they’re the largest animal that’s ever existed on Earth—and that includes dinosaurs.

Scientists analyzing 443-million-year-old Scottish fossils have uncovered the early evidence that some of the first groups of vertebrates possessed surprisingly advanced eyes and traces of bone, ...

A team of scientists from the University of Manchester have uncovered some of the earliest evidence of advanced, camera-like ...

For almost two decades, scientists have debated whether sponges or comb jellies are the first animal lineage. Now some are ...

Researchers developed bioengineered lymphatic tissue that replaced missing lymph nodes in mice, with potential to treat lymphedema.

Scientists in South Korea have discovered that one of the most common malignant brain tumors in young adults may begin years ...

No donor? No problem. Scientists have created a 3D-printed liver patch designed to give failing organs time to heal, without full transplants.