Naked mole-rats not only look strange, they have a strange lifestyle, too: they spend their entire lives underground. They also feel very little pain, rarely develop cancer and are exceptionally long-lived for a rodent — living up to 37 years. All this makes the hairless burrow-dwellers prime candidates for scientific study.

For nearly 20 years, […]

A series of developmental stages of the platypus were examined to obtain an anatomical description of the development of the periphery of the electroreceptive system. Putative electroreceptors, composed of modified mucous glands, were observed to appear at 10 days post hatching (p.h.). The typical striped arrangement of peripheral electroreceptors in the platypus was seen at […]

Researchers have successfully used CRISPR-Cas9 to edit the genomes of the black-legged tick. To accomplish this feat, they developed an embryo injection protocol that overcame a major barrier in the field.The work appears February 15 in the journal iScience.

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