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Researchers from the Department of Cellular Biology at the University of Seville and Seville Institute of Biomedicine (IBiS) have shown that epithelial cells, which are those that cover the surfaces ...

An international team of researchers found that rhesus macaques perform geometric shape recognition tasks at roughly the same level as four- to five-year-old children ...

Baboons and macaques appear to use some of the same mental strategies as humans when matching shapes, suggesting that the ...

Geometric morphometrics provides a quantitative framework for capturing, analysing and comparing the shapes of biological structures using landmark coordinates. By removing non‐shape variation through ...

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Decades of research has viewed DNA as a sequence-based instruction manual; yet every cell in the body shares the same genes – so where is the language that writes the memory of cell identities?

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Across the animal kingdom, many species are covered in simple, solid colors, while others display patterns that seem random and chaotic. But some animals seem to follow the rules of mathematics, ...