The Bronx Zoo has reopened its World of Darkness exhibit after a 16-year hiatus.

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By combining three editing technologies, Colossal engineered mice that express multiple mammoth-identified traits relevant to cold adaptation.

This review describes basic and translational research on the complex physiological processes of hunger, which regulate feeding habits and are influenced by socioeconomic, cultural, and behavioral ...

By Abigail Headley The top 20 winners in the Ministry of Tourism’s Snap n Share 57 photography competition received their prizes yesterday. The first ...

Significant progress in our understanding of cancer cachexia has occurred in recent years. Despite these advances, no pharmacologic agent has achieved US Food and Drug Administration approval for this ...

A genetic rearrangement, undetectable by most routine genetic tests, that leads to high levels of the agouti-signaling protein (ASIP), has been detected in five children with obesity. Abnormal ...

The agouti isn’t the only animal that Brazil nut trees need to survive. It appears that they also rely on certain bees, and even other plants, to reproduce.

The Central American Agouti is one of the approximately 50 members of the order rodentia (rodents) to call this small country its home. They’re in a suborder called Caviomorpha which, for me, contains ...