Compounds known to play an important role in how insects develop from larvae to adults have been shown in mice to be effective in preventing and reducing cardiac cell overgrowth and irregular heart ...

Giant Malaysian leaf insects stay very still on their host plants to avoid predators. Giant Malaysian leaf insects stay still – very still – on their host plants to avoid hungry predators. But as they ...

An electron microscope has been used to capture the first three-dimensional image of a tiny filament, or strand, of an essential muscle that the palm-sized water bug Lethocerus indicus uses to fly.

WE describe here a technique—using a laser—for measuring the contractile excursions of the insect heart after the insect (in this case Sarcophaga bullata) has been immobilized in wax, and sections of ...