Opinion

Sending signals

Baron Jakob Johann von Uexkull, a Baltic German biologist, mentioned in his book entitled Stroll through the World of Animals that all creatures, including plants, on this planet live in an Umwelt ...
A lab study on crickets has revealed sex differences in how the insects direct their nutritional resources to increase ...
Artificial tissues that mimic the placenta, endometrium, ovary and vagina could point to treatments for common conditions ...
We humans love putting things in boxes. Assigning simple categories makes us feel comfortable – but all too often, biology ...
BACKGROUND: PYGM (muscle glycogen phosphorylase), the rate-limiting enzyme in glycogenolysis, plays an indispensable role in maintaining cardiac energy metabolism. However, the role of PYGM in the ...
While not a clinical diagnosis, experts say it’s an accurate description of a cluster of symptoms that often appears in aging men.
After the success of the preliminary Boston trials for the Pill in 1954 and 1955, John Rock and Gregory Pincus were confident they had honed in on an oral contraceptive. But without large-scale human ...