Researchers in Germany have identified a new antimicrobial peptide that demonstrates significant activity against a variety of bacteria, including multiresistant human strains such as ...

A team of biologists and physicists has uncovered in detail the dynamic process that allows the multi-tentacle Hydra, a tiny freshwater animal distantly related to the sea anemone, to open and close ...

The principle that all living things grow old eventually has always been a fact of life – till now. For nearly a decade, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) have ...

WOODS HOLE, Mass. -- Accomplishing perhaps a world first, researchers at Columbia University and the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) have mapped the full-body muscular activity of an animal while ...

HOUSTON – (Aug. 2, 2021) – Even the simplest creatures seem extraordinarily complex when you look beneath the surface. Fortunately, hydra make that part easy. Rice electrical and computer engineer ...

For two people to communicate in a loud, crowded room, they need to be standing side by side. The same is often true for neurons in the brain. But the same way a cell phone allows two people to ...