Sophisticated physical measurements show how insects and other invertebrates make use of heavy metals to strengthen and sharpen their appendages in a way that is different from the biomineralization process used to form the teeth, bones, and other organs in a wide variety of animals.
In a volume dedicated to the influential Russian-American linguist Roman Jakobson (1896-1982), modern linguist Tyler James Bennett explains how the ambiguity of meaning in poetic metaphor opens the mind to development of its creative potential in a way that literal writing cannot.
A detailed analysis of the way that proteins become bound to nucleotides, the structural units of DNA and RNA, gives insight into how key enzymes that control metabolism in all living organisms may have evolved.
A botanist and a psychologist have put forward a highly novel theory of the circadian clock based on the integration of bioelectric time-sensing mechanisms in individual cells and parts of cells.
A team of researchers at Cornell University has found that the common antipsychotic drug thioridazine suppresses the tumor activity of many malignant testicular germ cell tumors in laboratory mice.
A collaboration of molecular biologists and bioinformaticians from Germany, Austria, and Japan has discovered a limitation in the method long used to evaluate oocytes (immature egg cells) in medical research.