People spend about a third of their lives asleep. Yet, surprisingly little is known about how our brains control falling asleep and waking up. Now, researchers led by Prof. Henrik Bringmann at the ...

Learn how this species of worm detects death, resulting in a range of behavioral and physiological responses.

which demonstrated for the first time that microRNA was involved in gene regulation in the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans – a finding that the Nobel Prize committee has said was "initially met ...

May 21, 2025 — A new study has revealed why some spiders possess venom that is far more potent than others. By analyzing the venoms of more than 70 different spider species, the team explored ...

Key Laboratory of Ion Beam Bioengineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, Anhui 230031, People’s Republic of China, Department of Chemistry and Biology, Huainan Normal University, Huainan, Anhui ...

Department of Neurology, Yueyang Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai 200437, China ...

Contributed by Gary Ruvkun, January 4, 2019 (sent for review September 13, 2018; reviewed by Danielle A. Garsin and Emily R. Troemel) ...

May 6, 2025 — Termites -- infamous for their ability to destroy wood -- are rarely welcomed into rainforests that have been painstakingly replanted. But a new paper suggests that termite ...