A plant that snaps its jaws shut, digests its prey with acid, and hunts insects challenges everything we think we know about ...

We tend to think of the brain as being made up of highly specialised cells, but a study in mice suggests that most neurons ...

Every cell in the human body carries the same 3 billion letters of DNA, yet a neuron, a heart muscle cell and a pancreatic beta cell each use that shared code to do entirely different jobs. How cells ...

A team of Vermont researchers has discovered that mysterious black skin lesions afflicting catfish in Lake Memphremagog and ...

The larvae of a beetle native to South and Central America, the critters are the perfect solution to sticky problem: How to ...

A nerve cell resembles a vast tree with branches that communicate with thousands of other cells. To function, it depends on a ...

With only a few hundred red wolves left, Smithsonian scientist Jennifer Nagashima is pioneering new ways to preserve their ...

These snakes can go for months without eating, grow and shrink the size of their hearts and jump start their metabolism on a ...

A crocodile locks its jaws around an electric eel, confident in one of the strongest bites in nature, and then something goes ...

Sixty-nine organisations have proactively published their 2025 animal research statistics including the University of Glasgow. UAR has also produced a list of 69 organisations in ...

Scientists say they have built a cell from scratch for the first time that feeds, grows and replicates like a natural cell, a breakthrough in synthetic biology.

In a groundbreaking scientific achievement that reads like science fiction, researchers have successfully revived cells from a northern white rhino that died in 2018. This remarkable feat has ...