Spiders are among Earth's most resourceful predators, nabbing prey by any means necessary. Orb weavers spin webs for capture.

A growing body of research suggests astrocytes, star-shaped brain cells once dismissed as support players, may lead the way ...

If scientists could shrink themselves to microscopic size and take a journey through the human body—like the submarine crew ...

A human female is born with all the egg cells she will ever have. The possibility for the development of new oocytes is zero. Given this constraint, it is crucial that these gametes remain healthy and ...

Oregon Health & Science University is getting a major boost in its effort to better understand and eventually treat some of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An image of an oocyte with a bright image of a skin cell nucleus before fertilization. via Oregon Health & Science ...

Researchers recently developed a bone marrow model to study how the body generates cells. Interestingly, this model is the first of its kind to be developed entirely from human cells. Not only can ...

Typically, bone marrow research relies heavily on animal models and oversimplified cell cultures in the laboratory. Now, researchers from the Department of Biomedicine at the University of Basel and ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet and KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden have developed an improved method for ...

Scientists led by Botond Roska at the Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel (IOB) have developed MitoCatch, ...

Etelka is a post-doctoral research fellow exploring aerosol science with biology and engineering. Etelka is a post-doctoral research fellow exploring aerosol science with biology and engineering.View ...