Nanoplastics in water hindered oxygen transport in zebrafish, underscoring their toxic impact on aquatic health.

In vertebrate retinas, specialized photoreceptors responsible for color vision (cone cells) arrange themselves in patterns ...

Polystyrene nanoparticles are widely used in packaging, but their effects on organisms are unclear. Very little was known about how they affect blood cell development until now.

Polystyrene nanoparticles are widely used in consumer products. The researchers found that nanoparticle exposure alters red ...

A study led by Prof. Liu Feng from the Institute of Zoology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has identified a crucial role ...

What if you could take a picture of every gene inside a living organism—not with light, but with DNA itself? Scientists at ...

The preclinical evaluation of drug-induced cardiotoxicity is an important stage in the drug development process; however, ...

The University of Maine at Fort Kent biology program will host its first Scientific Speakers Series presentation entitled ...

Previous studies have shown that protein expression of DOCK7 is increased in skeletal muscle biopsies from patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), leading researchers from the University of ...

Microglia are brain-resident macrophages playing pivotal roles in CNS development and homeostasis. Yet, the cellular and molecular basis governing microglia maintenance ...