Now, researchers at MIT have discovered a way to manipulate these early cellular motions using light, providing a new tool to ...

Cells constantly shift and transform, triggering the complex choreography that shapes living organisms. Whether dividing into ...

A tiny molecule called bombesin links starfish and humans in appetite control, revealing a surprising evolutionary connection.

Life takes shape with the motion of a single cell. In response to signals from certain proteins and enzymes, a cell can start ...

This sped-up video (60x speed) shows the fascinating effect of ArBN on the common starfish (Asterias rubens). While ArBN doesn’t cause complete stomach retraction - it’s about 50% after 6 minutes.

A team of biologists at Queen Mary University of London has discovered that a neurohormone controlling appetite in humans has an ancient evolutionary origin, dating back over half a billion years.

Deep in the underwater world, animals like starfish use unusual ways to escape predators. In an act called autotomy, starfish shed one or more of their limbs to flee their hunters. The severed, ...

While earlier studies had shown that some starfish that live in shallower, brighter water have and use compound eyes, no one had previously looked at animals occupying the sea floor. “What you see in ...

A team of biologists at Queen Mary University of London has discovered that a neurohormone controlling appetite in humans has ...