DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY
Developmental biology studies how organisms grow, develop, and form from a single cell into complex living beings. RathBiotaClan covers the latest developmental biology research — from embryology and stem cell science to the genetic programs that control development and regeneration.
Scientists Say Babies May Learn to Yawn Before Birth
Mothers can spread yawns to their yet-to-be-born offspring during pregnancy, researchers report May 5 in Current Biology the first empirical evidence...
Mammals Might Be Able to Regenerate Tissue Under the Right Conditions
Two recent Science studies challenge an old assumption. They show that mammalian regenerative failure does not stem from genetics alone. Instead, it...
Is Gen Z the First Generation Less Intelligent Than Their Parents?
Gen Z intelligence decline is emerging as a serious concern among neuroscientists and education researchers. For over a century, each...
Why Nearly Half of U.S. Women Will Be Single and Childless by 2030
Imagine a future where nearly half of American women in their prime ages 25 to 44 opt out of marriage...
Fetal Microchimerism: How a Baby’s Cells Stay With the Mother for Decades to Repair and Protect
Biological boundaries are far more porous than we once believed. Through fetal microchimerism, a mother carries a low-level population of...
Maternal Biological Clocks Found to Dictate Pathogen Susceptibility in Offspring
Recent research into the predictability of infection outcomes within isogenic populations of Caenorhabditis elegans has revealed that susceptibility to pathogens...
Sea Urchin Twinning New Research On Embryo Self Organization
Sea urchin twinning has fascinated scientists for more than a century, raising the question of how two complete individuals can...
How Baby Kittens Locate Their Mother’s Milk
Newborn kittens are born blind, deaf, and completely helpless. Yet within minutes, they crawl toward their mother and begin nursing....
Fatty Liver in Pregnancy Raises Risk of Prenatal Birth
A significantly higher risk of premature delivery has been revealed by a new study conducted by researchers at Karolinska Institutet...
How archaeologists determine the sex of skeletons
We may see which skeletons are that of males or females which is at the base of what we study...
POPULAR NEWS
Chewing gum releases thousands of microplastic particles directly into your mouth with every piece you chew
Microplastics are turning up in places researchers never expected: deep-sea sediments, Arctic ice, and human blood. Now, a UCLA pilot...
Yelling Isn’t Just Yelling: How a Hostile Home Rewires a Child’s Brain for Constant Alert
To a parent in the heat of the moment, a raised voice may feel like simple frustration. To a child...
72-Hour Fasting Can Reset Your Entire Immune System, USC Study Shows
A 72-hour fast can trigger a powerful immune system reset. Scientists call this stem cell regeneration. The process clears old...
New Studys Says Gen Z is the least sexually active young cohort in modern recorded history
A generation that grew up with dating apps in their pockets, pornography a tap away, and sex discussed more openly...
Is Gen Z the First Generation Less Intelligent Than Their Parents?
Gen Z intelligence decline is emerging as a serious concern among neuroscientists and education researchers. For over a century, each...
EDITOR CHOICE‘S
The Parsimony Criterion in Phylogenetics: Morphological & Molecular Methods
The parsimony criterion is one of the oldest and most widely used methods of constructing phylogenetic trees, having its roots...
Maximum Likelihood Criterion in Phylogenetic Tree Reconstruction
The maximum-likelihood (ML) criterion is one of the most important and statistically rigorous approaches used for phylogenetic tree reconstruction, first...
Tree Optimization Criteria and Tree Search Methods in Phylogenetics
Distance-matrix clustering methods such as UPGMA and Neighbor-Joining construct a phylogenetic tree directly through a fixed, well-defined algorithm, without explicitly...
Bootstrapping in Phylogenetics – Tree Reliability, Resampling & Bootstrap Values
Bootstrapping is a statistical method used to assess the reliability of a phylogenetic tree, introduced by Felsenstein in 1985. Since...
