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 ...
Researchers suggest "one daring idea" would be to apply the concept of habituation to the relationship between cancer and immunity.
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 ...
Cell-to-cell communication through nanosized particles, working as messengers and carriers, can now be analyzed in a whole ...
DNA is typically found within chromosomes, but certain tumors store cancer-promoting genes outside of chromosomes as ...