Scientists have described an enigmatic species of mammal that lived about 165 million years ago…
Month: August 2013
Strangers invade the homes of giant bacteria
Life is not a walk in the park for the world’s largest bacteria, that live…
Treadmill training after spinal cord injury promotes recovery when inflammation is controlled
New research suggests that treadmill training soon after a spinal cord injury can have long-lasting…
Material in dissolvable sutures could treat brain infections, reducing hospital stays
A plastic material already used in absorbable surgical sutures and other medical devices shows promise…
New proto-mammal fossil sheds light on evolution of earliest mammals
A newly discovered fossil reveals the evolutionary adaptations of a 165-million-year-old proto-mammal, providing evidence that…
NIH, Lacks family reach understanding to share genomic data of HeLa cells
The National Institutes of Health has reached an understanding with the family of the late…
Newly discovered bacterial partnership changes ocean chemistry
In a discovery that further demonstrates just how unexpected and unusual nature can be, scientists…
Scientists find key signal that guides brain development
Scientists have decoded an important molecular signal that guides the development of a key region…
Motional layers found in the brain: Neurobiologists discover elementary motion detectors in the fruit fly
Recognizing movement and its direction is one of the first and most important processing steps…
The brain with all its cells and their connections: Scientists succeed in the complete reconstruction of a piece of retina
Decoding the essence of being — understanding the brain and all its connections, that is…