Unborn children may be at risk for diabetes and other metabolic conditions later in life if exposed to certain common pollutants, according to research by an environmental health scientist. Alicia ...

Our skin protects us from everyday mechanical stresses, like friction, cuts, and impacts. A key part of this ...

Salt Lake City, Utah—BioEYES, a K-12 science educational program hosted by the Carnegie Institution for Science, is launching a new center sponsored by the University of Utah, Department of Pediatrics ...

The human heart confounds logic by starting to beat before it is fully formed -- a developmental oddity shared by all vertebrate hearts. New research now reveals a related oddity: The valve needed for ...

Cambridge, MA – December 12, 2006 – Phylonix Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced it has received a $500,000 Phase II Small Business Innovation Grant (SBIR) from the National Science Foundation to ...

Species: Zebrafish, Danio rerio Genome size: ~1.41 billion base pairs The zebrafish (Danio rerio) is a widely used genetic, developmental, and disease model organism because of the near-effortlessness ...

progression in living organisms. Click on the image for a larger version. Hot on the heels of see-through frogs, researchers at Children's Hospital Boston have bred see-through zebrafish that put ...

NOTE: A link to videos of the developing heart is at end of the release. The human heart confounds logic by starting to beat before it is fully formed —a developmental oddity shared by all vertebrate ...