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Organ donors can save lives, for example, those of patients with kidney failure. Unfortunately, there are too few donors, and the waiting lists are long. 3D bioprinting of (parts of) organs may offer a solution to this shortage ...
The cause of death for two baby pterosaurs has been revealed by University of Leicester paleontologists in a post-mortem 150 million years in the making.
You are probably familiar with kangaroos. Wallabies too, and most likely quokkas as well.
Red squirrels on the Isle of Wight are thriving and have sufficient food and natural habitats to support a growth in their population, a new study has found. Scientists also found that while the squirrels on the east and ...
A new species of a native bushland marsupial—closely related to the kangaroo—has been discovered but is already likely extinct, new research shows.
If biomolecules were people, heparin would be a celebrity. Best known as a powerful blood thinner with a global market of more than $7 billion, heparin is used during and after surgery and is essential to kidney dialysis. ...
Imagine a child with eczema who scratches a patch of irritated skin. A tiny opening forms, invisible to the eye. Into that breach slips a common bacterium, Staphylococcus aureus.
Researchers at EPFL have created the first 4D lipid atlas of vertebrate development, revealing how fats shape our bodies from embryo to organism.
Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have developed a novel framework for understanding and controlling the flow behavior of granular hydrogels—a class of material made up of densely packed, microscopic ...
Humans have caused wild animals to shrink and domestic animals to grow, according to a new study out of the University of Montpellier in southern France. Researchers studied tens of thousands of animal bones from Mediterranean ...
