Mosquitoes do not bite everyone; some people are more prone to get bitten, while others are not interesting for mosquitoes. A general saying is that the bitten people are more delicious. Of course, this is ridiculous. Researchers have found specific cells in one of the three organs that make up the mosquitoes nose tuned to […]

By changing the DNA on two places, scientists have developed a super-muscled mouse, with four times the amount of muscle as usual. The protein myostatine was already known to slow down the muscle grow. Animals and humans without this protein develop extra big muscle cords as well as a lot of muscle cords. It is […]

Scientists at the University of Bern, Switzerland, determined that spiders use these scuba tanks, called air bells, as reservoirs, monitoring and replenishing oxygen levels to enable the animals to live underwater. “The water spider’s air bell is in some ways working like an external lung,” said study co-author Michael Taborsky. But it also serves as […]