Most animals, including humans, have bilateral symmetry, which means our bodies are pretty symmetrical. At least on the ...

This internal left-right asymmetry is believed to begin at the very early stage of development -- when a tiny embryo is divided into two parts during a process called gastrulation. This process ...

Scientists have uncovered a key mechanism in jellyfish embryos that provides new insights into how the body plan of these ...

Columbia scientists have found specialized neurons in the brains of mice that order the animals to stop eating. Though many feeding circuits in the brain are known to play a role in monitoring food ...

The state-of-the-art facility is one part animal shelter and one part community center that aims to help people and pets live their best lives together. “The human-animal bond is such a ...

Blob is a very simple invertebrate, just like worms or jellyfish. Over 96% of all the animal species on Earth are invertebrate. They can be tiny like an insect or huge like the giant squid.

Rice lab pioneers an assembly kit for synthetic sense-and-respond circuits in human cells. Rice University bioengineers have ...