From rodents to humans, tools that enable large-scale, single-cell neuronal recordings are exposing the inner workings of the ...

For much of human history, our species has treated Earth as an inexhaustible source of raw materials. In the past ...

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An account of how nineteenth-century studies aiming to find a biological basis for human races were dismantled by good ...

The nation plans to boost the number of doctoral candidates, but some early-career researchers warn of systemic challenges, ...

New evidence is helping researchers recover the lost histories of Africans buried on St Helena, nearly two centuries after ...

Scientists pay tribute to Marta Shahbazi Alonso and Tamara González Costa who died on their way to a developmental-biology meeting.

Animal physiology is the scientific study of the life-supporting properties, functions and processes of animals or their parts. The discipline covers key homeostatic processes, such as the regulation ...

Image processing is manipulation of an image that has been digitised and uploaded into a computer. Software programs modify the image to make it more useful, and can for example be used to enable ...

Metabolic bone disease describes a diverse group of disorders of bone metabolism, most commonly caused by abnormalities of minerals (such as calcium or phosphorous) or vitamin D.

Bone marrow transplantation is the transference of bone marrow from one human or animal to another for a variety of purposes. Bone marrow transplantation can be used to treat certain blood disorders ...