Zebrafish have emerged as a vital vertebrate model system that bridges developmental biology and behavioural neuroscience. Their genetic tractability, optical transparency during early development and ...

The earliest days after fertilization, once a sperm cell meets an egg, are shrouded in scientific mystery. The process of how a humble single cell becomes an organism fascinates scientists across ...

There are few forms of the botanical world as readily identifiable as fern leaves. These often large, lacy fronds lend ...

Following years of research and the power of a technologically advanced instrument, scientists have detailed the complex nanoscale exoskeleton patterns of the roundworm, a model laboratory organism, ...

Two types of white blood cells, a neutrophil (top) and a lymphocyte (bottom), in human blood. Ed Reschke via Getty Images In an effort that began more than ten years ago, scientists have estimated ...