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The gel, which was implanted alongside a pancreatic cell transplant in monkeys with type 1 diabetes, releases a protein that kills overactive immune cells, preventing the pancreatic cells from being rejected

Some manakin males court females with elaborate aerial routines – and in these species, males have evolved to be more lightweight for extra agility

Researchers asked 511 people aged 70 or over who lived in Belgium how sexually active they had been in the past year

A worm with jaws that contain unusually large amounts of copper relies on a single protein to build its fangs

The way someone processes information in product reviews may differ depending on whether or not they grew up in a home with parents who argued

Tourists can hand-feed some dolphins around the coast of Australia, but dolphins fed this way are less likely to form strong social bonds with their peers

When the common swift is nesting, it sometimes enters an energy-saving “torpor” state that is a bit like hibernation

The ability to sense the internal state of the body, known as interoception, may be linked to our mental health, and macaques appear to have similar capabilities to us

CT scans of humans, chimpanzees and macaques reveal that human collarbones slow their growth rate in the final months of pregnancy, perhaps to make it easier for babies to squeeze through the pelvis

A tiny snake-like animal that lived about 308 million years ago had evolved to lose its forelimbs