Male worms can activate two conflicting memories—mating and starvation—when encountering the same odor, but only one ...

After the Alabama Supreme Court ruled (PDF) earlier this year that embryos created through ... You'll be given medication for this part. (Fun fact: Human egg cells are gigantic compared to the other ...

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

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 ...

The rod-shaped tuberculosis (TB) bacterium, which the World Health Organization has once again ranked as the top infectious ...

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

Genomics and Beckman Coulter Life Sciences, announce the commercial availability of a new solution to automate single cell ...

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

In the study, published in Nature Cell Biology, scientists demonstrate for the first time that the deterioration of cells in ...

DNA is typically found within chromosomes, but certain tumors store cancer-promoting genes outside of chromosomes as ...

Researchers suggest "one daring idea" would be to apply the concept of habituation to the relationship between cancer and immunity.

Gene mutations have consequences both good and bad—from resistance to conditions like diabetes to susceptibility to certain ...