UCSF researchers are using tiny "mini-organs" to model disease, personalize treatment, and understand human development. They ...

An international team, including the University of Tokyo, has created a sensor inspired by the lateral line in fish—their ...

Producing follicles isn’t the only task for ovaries, new research suggests. (Steve Gschmeissner/Science Photo Library/Getty ...

Males of the species Drosophila melanogaster pack thousands of almost two-millimeter-long sperm cells into significantly smaller storage organs. A new study reveals how they move in an orderly manner ...

The Multi-Sensory Convergence Ladder: As signals ascend deeper into the fish’s forebrain, specifically into a structure called the pallium, single-sense neurons give way to multi-sensory cells. This ...

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A biomechanical well plate inspired by the pressure-sensing lateral line of fish can wirelessly monitor the pulse of multiple ...

Deep inside the cloud forests of Mexico, certain patches of bark and rotting wood begin to glow a faint, ghostly green once ...

A tiny zebrafish, separated from us by more than 400 million years of evolution, sorts and then combines its senses in the ...

Line up the brains of a fish, bird and a mammal, and something unexpected comes up. You do not see three different answers to the problem of making sense of the world. You see one answer, tilted three ...

Lee J. Martin, Professor of Pathology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, discusses neonatal encephalopathy and his recent research into neonatal brain injury ...

For the study, reproductive biologist Francesca Duncan and her team observed how the functions of ovaries change with age in ...