The findings were published in the journal Cell. The research was led by Leonie Uhl, Amel Aziba, and Sinah Löbbert, working with colleagues from the University of Würzburg (JMU), Massachusetts ...

Researchers identify "Otp" as a molecular switch in the brain that determines the balance of hunger and satiety neurons, shaping lifelong obesity risk.

A newly identified lung cell “switch” could help doctors unlock the lungs’ natural ability to heal themselves.

A study identifies the Agouti gene as a molecular "off switch" for paternal care in the brain, influenced by environmental social competition.

Male caregiving is rare. Of the nearly 6,000 mammalian species, fewer than 5% of fathers stick around to raise their own ...

Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have discovered that a crucial developmental process in the brain's hypothalamus may influence how susceptible individuals are to obesity. Their ...

In response to social cues, individual clownfish will switch sexes. Cutting-edge research reveals the neural and genetic ...

Science is a subject built on doing. Students learn chemistry through titrations, biology through dissections, physics ...

Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the pathogen responsible for tuberculosis, has evolved a remarkably layered set of molecular ...

Inspired by the simple mechanism of a seesaw—when one side goes up, the other side goes down—researchers asked an intriguing ...

Researchers uncover a redox-regulated mechanism that determines whether bone fractures heal or progress to nonunion ...