Coconut oil is being heavily promoted as a healthy oil, with benefits that include support of
heart health. To assess the merits of this claim, the literature on the effect of coconut …

The morphogenesis of the C. elegans embryo is largely controlled by the development of
the epidermis, also known as the hypodermis, a single epithelial layer that surrounds the …

Importance Social media has had a profound effect on how children and adolescents interact.
While there are many benefits to the use of social media, cyberbullying has emerged as a …

The discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments, was a
success achieved with only a percent of the entire dataset foreseen for the LHC. It opened a …

Understanding how nerves regenerate is an important step towards developing treatments
for human neurological disease 1 , but investigation has so far been limited to complex …

An animal’s nervous system changes as its body grows from birth to adulthood and its
behaviours mature 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 – 8 . The form and extent of circuit remodelling across the …

Background In many animals, the epidermis is in permanent contact with the environment
and represents a first line of defense against pathogens and injury. Infection of the nematode …

Growth cone guidance and synaptic plasticity involve dynamic local changes in proteins at
axons and dendrites. The Dual-Leucine zipper Kinase MAPKKK (DLK) has been previously …

Axons of adult Caenorhabditis elegans neurons undergo robust regenerative growth after
laser axotomy. Here we show that axotomy of PLM sensory neurons triggers axonal calcium …

A sudden increase in the population of the solitary ascidian Ciona intestinalis (L.) is causing
serious biofouling problems for shellfish growers on the Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia, …