“Like riding a bike” is shorthand for the remarkable way that our bodies remember how to move. Most of the time when we talk ...

The longevity of naked mole rats may partly be due to them having a variant of a key protein that boosts DNA repair – a ...

The idea that a single-celled bacterium can defend itself against viruses in a similar way as the 1.8-trillion-cell human ...

Researchers aim to monitor 100,000 animals worldwide with GPS trackers, using data to understand climate change and help ...

Researchers have designed a peptide that prevents the deadly misfolding of alpha-synuclein, the protein behind Parkinson’s ...

Psychological stress can impair the brain’s reward system, contributing to psychiatric disorders. A new study examines how a ...

Sexual size differences are widespread in biology, yet the "how" behind them often remains vague. We asked a concrete ...

Introducing premature visual experience by opening the closed eyelids early in ferrets caused many cells in the primary visual cortex to mature improperly.

A study led by EPFL shows that Urolithin A, a natural compound, can abolish high anxiety in rats by repairing mitochondrial ...

His work in the manipulation of cells laid the foundation for stem cell biology and regenerative medicine and led to the ...

Design Single-cell RNA sequencing and spatial transcriptomics were performed on liver tissues from humans, rats and mice across ages to define key cell types and intercellular signalling. HIRI and ...

A study led by EPFL shows that Urolithin A, a natural compound, can abolish high anxiety in rats by repairing mitochondrial function in their brain cells, specifically in the nucleus accumbens. The ...