About 10 million years ago, Antarctica's Southern Ocean started to get so cold that it scared away most fish in the region.

A new discovery involving the larva of zebrafish shows promise for treating or preventing painful lymphoedema.

Can Ben Lamm save the planet? He thinks so. Short, stocky and unassuming with a puckish sense of humor, the shaggy-haired ...

Scientists have made a breakthrough that could lead to effective treatments for lymphedema, a painful swelling condition for ...

From fermented shark that made Anthony Bourdain gag to cheese crawling with live maggots, these are edible tests of courage ...

Plastic contamination in freshwater ecosystems continues to rise, resulting in micro- and nanoparticle accumulation in the aquatic environment. A new study by an aquatic ecology group at the ...

Plastic pollution in freshwater is increasing, leading to micro- and nanoplastic buildup. A study found these particles and their surface charge can harm fish reproduction, especially under stress.

In response to social cues, individual clownfish will switch sexes. Cutting-edge research reveals the neural and genetic ...

A proposed function of TADs is to contribute to gene regulation by promoting chromatin interactions within a TAD and by suppressing interactions between TADs. Here, we directly probe the ...

Researchers at the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS) and Imperial College London have shown for the first time that, before they can start developing into egg and sperm cells, the embryonic ...

In the book "What We Inherit," experts unpack long-standing myths about genes and how those myths could shape public opinion around emerging embryo-selection technologies.

This study reports an important and novel finding that TENT5A, an enzyme involved in fine-tuning poly(A) tail length on selected mRNAs, is required for proper enamel mineralization in mice. The ...