Full-body defense does not always look the way textbooks say it should. In planarian flatworms, a newly identified cell type ...

A Stanford study has uncovered ruptosis, a rapid immune defence in flatworms where specialised cells explode to destroy ...

The study, ‘Explosive cytotoxicity of ruptoblasts bridges hormone surveillance and immune defense’, was authored by Stanford ...

Life-forms with no brain are capable of some astounding things. It might sound like sci-fi nightmare fuel, but some bacteria can wage kamikaze chemical warfare. Pathogenic bacteria make us sick by ...