Mindfully Curated
Researchers have found that microscopic ciliates can eat huge numbers of infectious chloroviruses that share their aquatic habitat. The team’s lab experiments have also shown that a virus-only diet, which the team calls ‘virovory,’ is enough to fuel th…
A research group has revealed that the checkerboard-like arrangement of cells in the inner ear’s organ of Corti is vital for hearing. The discovery gives a new insight into how hearing works from the perspective of cell self-organization and will also …
Researchers investigate the neurological signals behind itchy eyes in rodents and their corresponding scratching behavior.
Finding where your family came from is as simple as a home DNA test. Determining ancestry from tumors alone is trickier, but could hold the key to cancer’s origins. Now, researchers have software that accurately infers continental ancestry from tumor g…