Researchers have long known that temperature can determine whether some reptiles develop as male or female, but this process ...

In reptiles, a simple temperature change can determine whether an egg develops into a male or female. This process is formally known as temperature-dependent sex determination (TSD), in which the sex ...

The survey conducted by AAHA and Gallant found 95% of industry professionals think stem cell therapy will become a new spectrum of care standard treatment option within 10 years. The American Animal ...

Mammalian oocytes utilize a conserved combination of cell cycle control, cytoskeletal organization, and polarity pathways that are fundamentally shared with other vertebrates and invertebrates.

Your body is a living museum of evolution, carrying within it the remarkable story of our species' 6-million-year journey from tree-dwelling primates to ...

A piglet born with only two legs in Agoncillo, Batangas, has captured the hearts of many online after its unusual condition was shared on social media.

Why did our ancestors ditch the shell and start growing babies inside their bodies instead? In this episode of Big Ideas, ...

Speaking at a recent meeting of the British Pharmacological Society in Brighton, UK, Christine Mummery described how using embryonic stem cells to create human heart cells could b ...

The ocean still hides many secrets, and sometimes the smallest or simplest creatures reveal the biggest clues about life.

Live Science spoke with the scientists behind an upcoming clinical trial testing an immune therapy for depression.

Interestingly, scientists have been up to some weird stuff over the years, and thanks to them, people can now buy a ...

The spacing, timing, and shape matched patterns usually found in animals with left and right sides. The process raised a question. Why would a sea anemone use what looked like a tool common in far ...