According to new research, the neurotransmitter dopamine is involved in recognizing emotion. The reward neurotransmitter also contributes to social cognition. The neurotransmitter dopamine, famous for…
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Spiny chromis family. Credit: Dr. Sophie Nedelec Coral reef fish breed more successfully if motorboat noise is reduced, new research shows. Scientists introduced “traffic calming”…
Like many octopuses, the California two-spot octopus (Octopus bimaculoides) declines and dies shortly after breeding. Credit: Tom Kleindinst, Marine Biological Laboratory Changes in cholesterol production…
Cartoon of CRISPR in cockroaches. Credit: Shirai et al./Cell Reports Methods According to a paper published in the journal Cell Reports Methods by Cell Press…
Alfredi on reef Komodo. Credit: Andrea Marshall Scientists from the Marine Megafauna Foundation and Murdoch University, through a collaborative effort including the public, are reporting…
Sowerby’s beaked whale. Credit: NOAA Fisheries An international team of biologists has successfully used biologgers to reveal insights into the lifestyle and hunting behavior of…
The SpatioTemporal Omics Consortium (STOC) is a collaborative research initiative that aims to accelerate our understanding of cellular complexity and interactions at tissue scale in…
Brazilian researchers discovered, characterized, and validated the functions of two novel enzyme families with biotechnological potential. One method of reducing reliance on oil and other…
Stock photo illustrating a plant growing on the moon. Scientists have grown plants in soil from the Moon, a first in human history and a…
Illustration of human cancer cells. A team of researchers led by Yale UniversityEstablished in 1701, Yale University is a private Ivy League research university in…
Researchers have linked increased numbers of mutations in children to a higher rate of random mutations in sperm cells of the biological father, associated with…
Greater mouse-eared bats. Scientists have discovered the first case of acoustic Batesian mimicry in mammals: greater mouse-eared bats imitate the buzzing sound of a stinging…
Researchers found phospholipids to be essential in epithelial cell adhesion. Phosphatidylinositol bisphosphate (PIP2), a phospholipid, is essential for epithelial cell-cell adhesion and maintaining cellular identity.…
Artistic reconstruction of mating position in Olenoides serratus. Credit: Holly Sullivan Fossils can tell scientists a lot about an animal such as their morphology, their…
The new multi-organ chip has the size of a glass microscope slide and allows the culture of up to four human engineered tissues, whose location…
Newly Discovered Neural Network Gets Visual and Motor Circuits in Sync A fruit fly walks on a small styrofoam ball fashioned into a floating 3D…
Scientists discover how chronic pain leads to maladaptive anxiety in mice, with implications for treatment of chronic pain-related psychiatric disorders in humans. Neuronal plasticity in…
Illustration of an Elasmosaurus, an extinct marine reptile in the genus of Plesiosaur. A new research study finds that large bodies helped extinct marine reptiles…
A combination of microscopy, tissue preparation, and data innovations could yield first-of-their-kind brain atlases that specify the locations and types of all of the brain’s…