Hydration is essential for your cat’s health. While they may survive up to three days without water, dehydration can start ...

The discovery of a well-preserved fossil is helping researchers learn more about an iconic Jurassic-period species.

This important study examines the role of pericytes in patterning the zebrafish blood-brain barrier (BBB) and controlling its permeability. Using pdgfrb mutant zebrafish models lacking brain pericytes ...

This is an important and solid study that examines the role of TFAM, a protein that helps maintain mtDNA, in mtDNA mutator mice. The authors have demonstrated that TFAM's counteractive role in mtDNA ...

In their effort to answer a decades-old biological question about how the hepatitis B virus (HBV) is able to establish ...

Fossils are providing more and more clues about how dinosaurs attracted one another and reproduced, which contributed to ...

Tucked in the basement of the Mayo Building on the University of Minnesota’s Twin Cities campus sits a detached, beating ...

At the University of Minnesota's heart lab, millions of dollars of tubing and wires and technology work to keep a living ...

In the same way that the foods we eat can help our bodies to build and repair muscle, reduce inflammation and so much more, diet can also help to keep our brains on a good path – and hopefully for a ...

When NASA launched a spacecraft to an asteroid, scientists patiently waited for their chance to look at bits of the space ...

When it comes to cognitive abilities, birds and mammals may not be as far apart as many assume Birds are often imagined to be less intelligent than mammals, perhaps with the exception of crows and ...

Researchers find a master epigenetic switch that activates silenced genes to compensate for their missing counterparts in a ...