In plants and animals, the NLR family of receptors perceives non-self and modified-self molecules inside host cells and mediates innate immune responses to microbial pathogens. Despite their similar ...

For more than 1,500 years, nerves were thought to function through the action of 'animal spirits'. In the seventeenth century, René Descartes conceived of these 'spirits' as liquids or gases, and used ...

How animals function in their natural habitat and how evolution has shaped this function are the focus of a new book written by biologists at the University of California, Riverside and the University ...

Exercise is a vital step in constructing a muscle-like implant in the lab with the potential to repair muscle damage from injury or disease reveals new research. In mice, these implants successfully ...

The finding refutes a hypothesis by the famed evolutionary biologist Stephen J. Gould that marine creatures underwent an 'early burst' of functional diversity during the dawn of animal life. Like a ...

UNLV researcher Stanley Hillyard gets excited about the drinking habits of desert toads. Amphibians like the "rather-cute" Red Spotted Toad use the skin on their lower abdomens to absorb water, ...