The freshwater polyp Hydra oligactis is essentially immortal and reproduces asexually by cloning itself. Except when it gets ...

University of São Paulo researchers found that fourteen derivatives of an anticancer compound kill Plasmodium falciparum at ...

Watching jellyfish at an aquarium, it feels as if time itself is flowing slowly. Their bells pulse softly, and their tentacles sway with a slight delay. They are creatures that make it difficult to ...

For the first time, scientists managed to turn cloned male mouse embryos into females, giving life to healthy and fertile ...

Researchers in China have described two new species of basidiomycetous yeasts, Tremella arisaematis and Pseudotremella ...

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Researchers have figured out a missing piece of the puzzle of how human cells detect invading viruses and mount an immune response within an hour. This new insight into the battle between viruses and ...

How often do you buy a vegetable, spice, or bag of lettuce that gets used once, forgotten about, and thrown away? With grocery prices weighing heavily on family budgets, shoppers are looking for ways ...

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For a long time, sleep research has treated the cerebral cortex as a passive follower reacting to signals from the deep brain. “Usually, sleep is associated with being controlled by subcortical ...

Immunotherapy, which uses a patient's immune system to treat disease, has increased survival for some adults and children with cancer. However, it has had limited success against many pediatric solid ...

Scientists discovered a surprising backup system that lets mammalian cells make the essential amino acid cysteine even when the pathways once considered indispensable are disabled. The same survival ...