Up until recently, habituation -- a simple form of learning -- was deemed the exclusive domain of complex organisms with brains and nervous systems, such as worms, insects, birds, and mammals. But a ...

A new study suggests that individual cells may exhibit learning-like behaviors, previously thought exclusive to organisms with nervous systems.

A dog learns to sit on command, a person hears and eventually tunes out the hum of a washing machine while reading … The ...

A new study demonstrates that even simple single-cell organisms, such as ciliates and amoebae, exhibit habituation, a basic ...

The race is on to get cell-based protein products – meat, seafood, dairy and pet-food – on to supermarket shelves and into ...