In a succession of studies published this week and last month in the journals PeerJ and Zootaxa, researchers at Hawai'i ...

Despite the documented tight association between the immune and nervous systems in mammals or invertebrate model organisms, interdependence of these two systems is largely unexplored across metazoans.

Biologists, using a technique that explores both genes and structural characteristics, have introduced 10 new species of marine sponge. Despite their distinction as one of Earth's oldest lifeforms and ...

The Wiley Foundation is pleased to announce that the 23rd annual Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences will be awarded to ...

The development of an epithelial barrier to separate metazoans from the external environment necessitated the evolution of defence mechanisms that involve the secreted and transmembrane mucins.

While biolace presents a promising solution, its effectiveness in handling illegal industrial discharges and shock loads was questioned.

This is an important and solid study that examines the role of TFAM, a protein that helps maintain mtDNA, in mtDNA mutator mice. The authors have demonstrated that TFAM's counteractive role in mtDNA ...