The Very First Signs of an Immune Response Have Been Filmed in a Developing Embryo
Even as a hollow ball of embryonic cells, developing fish and mammals are not entirely defenceless. The very first tissue, formed on the surface of a vertebrate blastula, has been…
Moms Who Got Straight A’s Have the Same Leadership Opportunities as Dads Who Failed
Mothers who showed the most academic promise in high school have the same leadership opportunities as fathers who performed the worst, according to our new peer-reviewed study. That is, in…
Bizarre Coelacanth Hasn’t Spent 65 Million Years Unchanged After All, Its Genome Reveals
In 1938, a living relic, thought 65 million years long extinct, was accidentally captured in a trawl net off the coast of South Africa. The 2-metre (6.5-foot) long coelacanth (Latimeria…