Challenging a long-standing assumption regarding the adult brain, recent research has demonstrated that individuals can ...

This frog manages to outlast the winter by building up a glycerol-based "antifreeze" compound that safeguards its cells during icy weather. Its exterior still freezes over, and its heartbeat and ...

Scottish researchers have successfully edited the genes of experimented pigs to resist classical swine fever (CSF), a highly infectious and often fatal disease that poses a major threat to pig farming ...

Between carving pumpkins, buying Halloween decorations and dressing up for trick or treating, it seems people still had time ...

Some of these giant vegetarians were as tall as a 3-story building. Microscopic analysis of their teeth, bones and eggshells reveals how they grew, what they ate and even their body temperature.

The shift stems from a policy review launched in 2023. Health Canada, working with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, concluded that meat, milk, and other foods ...

Scientists at UC San Diego have moved one step closer to unlocking a superpower held by some of nature’s greatest “masters of disguise.” Octopuses, squids, cuttlefish and other animals in the ...

Thought to be extinct in the wild, the Spix Macaw currently exists in captivity with their numbers in the dismally low 60 to ...

The research team will observe mice treated with mefloquine, a malaria drug no longer prescribed due to serious side effects, ...

Mindy Wilt has spent nearly her entire life outdoors. From the time she was a kid, her parents had her walking in the woods near their cabin in Blacklog of the Juniata River Valley, trout fishing ...

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The protein is called CIRBP, and it plays a key role in repairing double-strand breaks in DNA, a type of genetic damage that can cause disease and shorten lifespan in a variety of species, including ...