In the world of biomechanics and medicine, there are challenges in the designing microrobots that are effective in drug ...

You are looking at one of the most important sensory shifts in mammal history: the rise of sensitive hearing. Modern mammals rely on a middle ear with an eardrum and tiny bones that detect faint ...

A four–amino acid peptide called CAQK has shown powerful brain-protective effects in animal models of traumatic brain injury. Delivered through a standard IV, it zeroes in on injured brain tissue, ...

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Rates of obesity and associated fatty liver disease have risen as the world increasingly adopts energy-dense diets and ...

A fossilized vulture feather reveals how volcanic ash can turn fragile tissues into stone with astonishing detail.

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Scientists at Duke-NUS Medical School have developed two powerful computational tools that could transform how researchers ...

Thanks to radical advancements in technology, your beloved pet — or at least a version of him or her — can now live forever, using tissue samples collected before their death.

For the first time, scientists have analyzed metabolism-related molecules from the fossilized bones of animals that lived 1.3 ...

Multipotent dental stem cells can give rise to various cell types and show potential for treating injuries, diabetes, and ...

Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) begin to accumulate in the tissues of mammals already during the fetal stage, according to new research from the University of Oulu, Finland. The animal-model ...