NOAA Fisheries biologist Nick Wegner holds an opah caught during a research survey off the California Coast. Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Southwest Fisheries Science Center New research by NOAA Fisheries has revealed the opah, or moonfish, as the first fully warm-blooded fish that circulates heated blood throughout its body much like mammals and birds, giving it a competitive [...]

The growth of a rat forelimb grown in the lab offers hope that one day amputees may receive fully functional, biological replacement limbs IT MIGHT look like an amputated rat forelimb, but the photo above is of something much more exciting: the limb has been grown in the lab from living cells. It may go down [...]