Scientists found that a single gene controls striking corn snake patterns like stripes and blotches. While essential for ...

Researchers have identified a compound that could block certain life-threatening and hard-to-treat allergic reactions.

The mammalian brain is known to produce mental representations of the spatial environment, known as cognitive maps, that help ...

In many animals, skin coloration and its patterns play a crucial role in camouflage, communication, or thermoregulation. In the corn snake, some morphs display red, yellow, or pink blotches, and their ...

The risk of cancer goes up with age, in part because aging impedes the body's ability to detect and destroy cells with ...

Nature has developed a unique structure as a scaffold for almost all nerve cells: the membrane-associated periodic skeleton ...

A combination of eyelid pressure patching and decellularized, dehydrated pure amniotic membrane basement membrane healed ...

Researchers have made a major breakthrough that could transform IV medications into oral treatments for diseases like brain ...

Hydrogen fuel cells convert hydrogen and oxygen into electricity, heat, and water. Because this conversion process doesn't ...

Newly established Rice Center for Membrane Excellence works to advance membrane applications for environmental sustainability ...

Researchers have produced the most detailed image to date of a bacteriophage -- phage for short -- that has allowed them to see for the first time the structural makeup of the part of the phage that ...