Damaged mouse skin looked almost as good as new in less than two weeks, thanks to a protein from a parasitic roundworm.

Loa loa infections affect up to 20 million people in Central and West Africa, but options for treatment and control are widely inadequate. Laura Salm-Reifferscheidt reports.

Researchers have discovered that the bluestreak cleaner wrasse – which are about the size of a human finger – will check its body size in a mirror before ... get their name because they provide a ...

Scientists have developed a new method to simulate the complex movements of animals with exceptional accuracy. The research team set out to solve a long-standing challenge in biology -- how to ...

A consortium of scientists published the first complete map of a fruit fly's brain Wednesday in the journal Nature.

If drinks and dinner during a movie sounds familiar, it’s because a number of cinemas have offered them for ages. Alamo ...

Since Homo sapiens appeared, brains have started to analyse themselves. And this week marks the publication of an important ...

Tiny worms that live in the highly radioactive Chernobyl Exclusion Zone were found to be immune to radiation — which scientists hope could provide clues about why some humans develop cancer, while ...

One leading brain specialist independent of the new research described the breakthrough as a "huge leap" in our understanding ...

F RUIT FLIES are smart. For a start—the clue is in the name—they can fly. They can also flirt; fight; form complex, long-term ...