A team of neurobiologists at Harvard Medical School's Howard Hughes Medical Institute has uncovered the neural mechanism ...

Houbie the dog made some unlikely new friends when he stumbled upon two baby jackals, sparking a fascinating and curious ...

Paleontologists have discovered fossils of Heleocola piceanus, a swamp-dwelling mammal that lived around 75 million years ago ...

Additionally, the field has moved beyond the study of individual hot spots to their distribution across mammalian genomes. These advances have largely relied on several technical developments that ...

Fossils from more than 600,000 years ago reveal how Southern Europe's animal community shifted between warm and cold climate ...

A new resource by Rappe et al (2024) now provides a spatiotemporal landscape of mitophagy changes during mouse brain aging at ...

The "RNA world" hypothesis proposes that the earliest life on Earth may have been based on RNA — a single-stranded molecule ...

Thomas Hurd, associate professor in the Department of Molecular Genetics at the University of Toronto, will talk about mtDNA degradation at 12:55 p.m. Wednesday in Bell Engineering 2267.

Scientists have successfully reprogrammed astroglia, a type of brain support cell, into neurons that mimic specific interneurons critical for brain function.

We elucidated exceptionally stable proteins, structures, and macromolecules that persist in mammalian ovaries and gametes across the reproductive lifespan. Ovaries exhibit localized structural and ...