Medicine and Life Sciences - Life Sciences

Animals A horse's whinny is an unusually distinctive mix of sounds including both high and low frequencies.

Health A new type of brain implant may have implications for both brain research and future treatments of neurological diseases such as epilepsy.

A research team has identified a new mechanism that controls DNA's ability to replicate - and thereby a cell's ability to divide. Since cancer cells are characterized by aggressive division, this discovery is significant for cancer research.

Researchers from the University of Southern Denmark have identified a new virus in a common gut bacterium. The virus is found significantly more often in patients with colorectal cancer. Colorectal cancer is one of the most common types of cancer in the Western world and a leading cause of cancer-related deaths.

DECISIONS New research from the University of Copenhagen, INSERM and Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research shows that the brain in mice works in separate channels at the same time, when they respond to emotionally significant stimuli. The research helps us better understand how the brain can quickly react to what is important.

Neural tissue normally dies quickly without oxygen. Yet bird retinas - among the most energy-demanding tissues in the animal kingdom - function permanently without it.