Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel received the 2026 award for their contributions to a revolutionary technique ...

The creators of a method for controlling brain cells with light have been honored in this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or ...

In what may have been a bizarre mix-up, an internal phone directory at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently ...

For 75 years, the Animal Welfare Institute has been dedicated to alleviating animal suffering caused by people. We envision a world where the treatment of animals is rooted in dignity and compassion.

Sep. 21, 2026 Genetic evidence has revealed a previously unknown gentoo penguin species on the remote Kerguelen Islands and shown that gentoos actually consist of four distinct species. The discovery ...

The Animal Science Department at the University of Wyoming is guided by land-grant principles – serving students, consumers, and animal agriculture stakeholders. As the state's sole four-year ...

When corals are stressed by changes in conditions such as temperature, light, or nutrients, they expel the symbiotic algae living in their tissues, causing them to turn completely white. When a coral ...

A suspected plague infection following the death of a laboratory worker in Russia has raised international concern. Here's ...

The Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve in California is home to a population of more than 100 sea otters. See for yourself! Visit Elkhorn Slough's real-time Otter Cam. Estuaries — ...

Animal biotechnology is a branch of biotechnology in which molecular biology techniques are used to genetically engineer (i.e. modify the genome of) animals in order to improve their suitability for ...

In Drosophila, the protein Lsp2, which is induced by dietary essential amino acids, is a key physiological effector of mTORC1, and mutant flies that lack the Lsp2 gene exhibit reduced translation of ...

Police are asking for help from the public after multiple sheep at a Canberra property were rounded up and injured. One of the sheep died from its injuries and another had to be euthanased. A ...