Classification of neurons into types enables their reproducible identification across times, laboratories and conditions. Classification also facilitates genetic access for functional studies, as well ...

THE study of form has revealed the importance of convergence in the evolution of plants and animals, as well as the inevitable influence of laws of growth which apply to creatures whatsoever their ...

Fish, flies and bears, oh my! A new research breakthrough gives genetic proof of how differences in (very different) animals develop. An international team of biologists has identified the molecular ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Protists are a diverse collection of organisms that do not fit into animal, plant, bacteria or ...

Kathleen A. Hill receives funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). Lila Kari receives funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of ...

Henry Taylor does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

Science is sometimes caricatured as a wholly objective pursuit that allows us to understand the world through the lens of neutral empiricism. But the conclusions that scientists draw from their data, ...

Life is ubiquitous on Earth and appears in a diversity of forms. But what characteristics do organisms have? What makes them alive? This activity explores that question. In the first part of the ...

Carl Woese may be the greatest scientist you’ve never heard of. “Woese is to biology what Einstein is to physics,” says Norman Pace, a microbiologist at the University of Colorado, Boulder. A ...