Zebrafish have emerged as a vital vertebrate model system that bridges developmental biology and behavioural neuroscience. Their genetic tractability, optical transparency during early development and ...

Marine worms possess camera-type eyes. Here they show that the growth of marine annelid eyes depends on a stem cell system reminiscent of vertebrate eyes. Moreover, eye development seems to be tuned ...

Scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), used CRISPR to engineer cellular models of embryos that mimic what happens in the first few days after reproductive cells meet. These ...

Following years of research and the power of a technologically advanced instrument, scientists have detailed the complex nanoscale exoskeleton patterns of the roundworm, a model laboratory organism, ...

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A new study by physicists and neuroscientists describes how connectivity among neurons comes about through general principles of networking and self-organization, rather than the biological features ...

On the universal curve, performance climbs steadily as organisms warm until they reach an optimal temperature where activity ...