A research team reported recently that heart muscle cells grown from induced pluripotent stem cells can integrate into the hearts of monkeys with a state of pressure overload.

Tested in animal models, it may extend cognitive function by 10-15 years, offering a potential breakthrough in Alzheimer’s ...

A U of I Professor is working to create a product which would help veterinarians spend more time healing animals and less ...

A new species of tardigrades with thousands of genes that become more active when exposed to radiation could help in devising ...

Recent research indicates that animals have been able to distinguish colours for around 500 million years. This ability ...

Researchers classified the new species within a new genus, Bathydevius, and new family, Bathydeviidae, because of its ...

In a strange episode in the animal kingdom, a captive marine animal merged with another of its kind to become a single ...

Deep-sea researchers have discovered a strange glowing sea slug off the coast of California that lives in the water column — ...

A Japanese team has developed a technique to insert chloroplasts isolated from algae into animal cells, a feat that could ...

While most sea slugs use a rough tongue to feed on prey attached to the seafloor, B. caudactylus uses a cavernous hood to ...

A study of Gila monster venom helped start the revolution in weight-loss drugs. But scientists think that’s just the ...

What happens to animals when their friends are stressed? Is it possible to document the spread of stress within groups of birds? Experiments conducted by the Cluster of Excellence "Centre for the ...