The three bluish blobs shown in the top right corner of this image may not resemble the sphere of noodles that is the human brain, but they are still…
The hexagons visible in this Picture of the Week are the eyes of an ordinary housefly, visualised with a scanning electron microscope. Former…
“This video shows a fruit fly embryo from when it was about two-and-a-half hours old until it walked away from the microscope as a larva, 20 hours…
If you wanted to draw your family tree, you could start by searching for people who share your surname. Cells, of course, don’t have surnames, but…
Researchers at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany, came a step closer to understanding how cells close gaps not…
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