Sponges are among Earth's most ancient animals, but exactly when they evolved has long puzzled scientists. Genetic information from living sponges, as well as chemical signals from ancient rocks, ...

Across all domains of life, immune defenses foil invading viruses by making it impossible for the viruses to replicate. Most known CRISPR systems target invading pathogens' DNA and chop it up to ...

A new study from Northwestern University is reshaping how scientists think about brain evolution. The research suggests that ...

With copper-blue blood prized by modern medicine and a body plan older than dinosaurs, the horseshoe crab reveals how ancient ...

Researchers uncover evidence that the gut microbiome and brain connection can influence brain gene expression and neural ...

The oldest fossilized remains of complex animals appear suddenly in the fossil record, and as if from nowhere, in rocks that ...

Encouraged by these results, Dudin, Dey, Guichard, and Hamel launched a close collaboration. Three years later, their work has produced near-encyclopedic insight into hundreds of protist species and ...

New research from the laboratory of Scott Leiser, Ph.D., in the Molecular and Integrative Physiology Department at the University of Michigan Medical School, reveals how a single longevity-related ...

After inventing the world's first connected scale in 2009, Withings is redefining preventive health once again with Body Scan ...

Manufacturers are aggressively scaling shrimp-based extraction facilities to secure reliable feedstock. Strategic alliances ...