As fish in different parts of the world adapted to live in fresh water, the same sites in the genome were changed time and again.

Flies use visual cues to finesse their mental maps of the environment. Two new studies use virtual reality to show how.

Janelia scientists are learning how animals adjust their physical exertion as changes in the environment or their own bodies alter how efficiently they move.

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The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institutet announced this morning that the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Jack W. Szostak, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute ...

This video shows fluorescently labeled malaria parasites in a drop of saliva (1) coming out of a mosquito's mouth, also called a proboscis (2). Malaria is a huge public health problem around the world ...

Take a visual journey through some of the major concepts in biology. These pathways to discovery were created by educators to help users explore various biological concepts. We would like to extend a ...

Janelia group leader Eric Betzig wins Nobel Prize for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy.