The plant, now known as Eugenia venteri, was identified from specimens collected from the province's lowland forests.

Researchers have unseated a previous theory for the mechanism underlying bacterial flagella movement, changing our ...

Scientists have uncovered a new explanation for how swimming bacteria change direction, providing fresh insight into one of ...

Scientists have uncovered a new explanation for how swimming bacteria change direction, providing fresh insight into one of ...

Male infertility is a major issue worldwide and its causes remain unclear. Now, an international team of researchers led by Hiroki Shibuya at the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR) in ...

During fertilisation, the egg cell and the sperm are bound together by, among other things, two specific proteins. Researchers have now demonstrated that this represents a special type of binding, ...

‌Sperm morphology refers to the form or shape of sperm, the male reproductive cell. Sperm of various plant and animal species differ from one another, sometimes in surprising ways. The sperm of human ...

New research shows sperm generate corkscrew-like fluid vortices that spin in sync with their tails, providing an unexpected boost. Reading time 2 minutes When we learn about “the birds and the bees,” ...

Bacteria exhibit species-specific numbers and localization patterns of flagella. How specificity in number and pattern is achieved is poorly understood but often depends on a soluble GTPase called ...

Hermes Bloomfield-Gadêlha receives funding from EPSRC. Alan Turing might be best known for his work helping to crack Germany’s “Enigma” communications code during the second world war. But he also ...

Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and specializes in reporting on health, medicine, and genetics. Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and ...