Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, P.O. Box 30012, College Station, Texas 77842-3012, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1300 Morris Park Avenue, Bronx, New York 10461, and SGX ...

Pufferfish are well-known for their ability to “puff up” into a round, sometimes spiky ball. Some people also know them for the poison their bodies hold. These unique fish are usually found in shallow ...

PHNOM PENH (Xinhua): Cambodia's Ministry of Health issued a statement on Saturday, reminding people not to eat pufferfish after seven people have been hospitalized in central Kampong Chhnang province ...

Department of Neuroscience of Disease, Brain Research Institute, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan Animal models have been used to model human diseases, and among them, small fishes have been ...

A video of a giant fish devouring a live crab with a satisfying crunch is going viral online, with the clip watched more than 20 million times. The short video starts with a yellow crustacean standing ...

It is time to review all the available data and find the distinctive characteristics of actin that make it such an important cell molecule. The presented double-stranded organization of filamentous ...

Recent genome-wide analyses have revealed patterns of positive selection acting on protein-coding genes in humans and mammals. To assess whether the conclusions drawn from these analyses are valid for ...

Among the 3,727 new gene candidates, 2,078 had no similarity even to medaka expressed sequence tags. Because 1,443 of 2,078 had open reading frames shorter than 100 amino acids, many of them might be ...

The finding of hemizygous or homozygous deletions at band 14 on chromosome 13 in a variety of neoplasms suggests the presence of a tumor-suppressor locus telomeric to the RB1 gene. We studied samples ...