Today, June 10, marks the 263rd anniversary of Benjamin Franklin’s alleged kite experiment. In honor of the date, the Russ College of Engineering and Technology at Ohio University has released an ...

Cell proliferation is an important indicator of cell health. It can be detected in a variety of ways, including the measurement of DNA synthesis by the incorporation of BrdU into newly synthesized DNA ...

Psychologist Beatrice Gelber conducted experiments in the 1950s and 1960s to test for associative learning in Paramecium aurelia. In her main trials (top row, image below), she reported that, while ...

Animals harbor vast numbers of microbes in their guts, but the effect of this community on the evolutionary trajectories of the hosts is unclear. Researchers are now using a combination of experiments ...