What just happened? A vertebrate's body consists of intricate connections between organs and various vessel systems. To better highlight and study these connections, German scientists have developed a ...

Make your way along the length of a vertebrate and it becomes pretty clear that the backbone is divided into regions. The vertebrae of the ribcage, for example, have a distinct shape and can easily be ...

The secret to wildDISCO’s success is a cholesterol-removing compound that extracts the lipid from the cell membranes without disrupting the cell’s structure. “This is kind of a magical chemical,” said ...

How can we ensure that life-saving drugs or genetic therapies reach their intended target cells without causing harmful side effects? Researchers have taken an important step to answer this question.

The accumulation of micro- and nanoplastics in the environment continues at an alarming rate. A radiolabeling technique made it possible to monitor the movement and accumulation of plastics in the ...

The team, led by Vivek Kumar, Ph.D. at The Jackson Laboratory, worked with 62 different mouse strains, ranging in mass from 13 grams to 45 grams, each with unique sizes, behaviors, and coat colors, ...

Using the blastocyst complementation method, we produced rat embryonic stem (ES) cell-derived sperm in testicular hypoplasia mice and successfully generated rat offspring. This method can provide a ...