A gene that turns on very early in embryonic development could be key to the formation of the placenta, which provides the ...

The immunological synapse can be defined as the orderly rearrangement of molecules in an immune cell at the interface with another cell. In natural killer (NK) cells, the lytic immunological synapse ...

New observations portray black holes as Jekyll and Hyde characters. They can be creators as well as destroyers. The classic view of black holes conjures images of gas and stars and even light being ...

Recent large surveys, such as the 2-degree Field Galaxy Redshift Survey (2dFGRS) and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), have characterized, much more accurately than before, both the spatial ...