Once thought improbable, in vitro human models are demonstrating technological prowess in a growing range of applications.

A new study reveal for the first time that the guinea pig pre-implantation embryo is very similar to the human embryo, spurring a better understanding of infertility and early human development.

Archaea—one of the three primary domains of life alongside bacteria and eukaryotes—are often overlooked and sometimes mistaken for bacteria due to their single-celled nature and lack of a nucleus. Yet ...

Dr. Gina Turrigiano is the Joseph Levitan Professor of Vision Science in the Biology Department at Brandeis University, where she heads the Turrigiano Lab.

University of Geneva is successfully participating in the prestigious ERC (European Research Council) grants scheme which encourages high-level, creative, fundamental research in all scientific ...

For decades, scientists assumed that neural stem cells (NSCs) only occur in the brain and spinal cord. A new international ...

A research group led by Nagoya University in Japan has discovered a new tissue in plants that is essential for seed formation ...

Induction of Multicellularity: When mechanically compressed, the salt-loving archaeon Haloferax volcanii can shift from being ...