UC Berkeley and Caltech researchers identified a gene circuit in zebrafish that allows heart regeneration after injury. Using ...

Humans can't regenerate heart muscle damaged by disease, but scientists have long known that some animals, such as zebrafish, can.Researchers have now ...

Have you ever felt a chill or heard an emotional song that made tiny bumps rise on your skin? These are goosebumps—small, ...

An interaction between two proteins points to a molecular basis for memory. But how do memories last when the molecules that ...

Historical Perspective Published: May 1999 A unifying concept: the history of cell theory Paolo Mazzarello Nature Cell Biology 1, E13–E15 (1999) Cite this article ...

Stegosaurus is one of those dinosaurs we all recognise straight away—big, slow, covered in plates, and dragging a spiky tail ...

Professor Levin directs both the Allen Discovery Center and the Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology at Tufts University in Massachusetts. His lab is unusual for the field of biology, a ...

What would you say if no one was watching? What would you create if no one could criticise it? What decision would you make ...

To commemorate David Morris's life and work after his sudden passing, we're re-releasing a 2017 interview about local power ...

A new study argues that religion, politics and war affect how animals and plants in cities evolve, and the confluence of ...

The Cambrian Explosion is a landmark moment in the history of life on Earth when many of the major groups of animals first ...

Scientists have decoded the sea spider’s genome for the first time, revealing how its strangely shaped body—with organs in ...