What can cellular neuroscientists learn about the human brain from studying a marine snail? Much more than one might suspect. "On a cell biological level, the mechanisms of learning and memory are ...

Animals reproduce in one of two distinct ways: egg-laying or live birth. By studying an evolutionarily recent transition from egg-laying to live-bearing in a marine snail, collaborative research has ...

Jimmy Buffett's music is synonymous with the Florida Keys. His longtime association with the archipelago off the state's southern coast led to a newly discovered, brightly colored snail being named ...

What can cellular neuroscientists learn about the human brain from studying a marine snail? Much more than one might suspect. "On a cell biological level, the mechanisms of learning and memory are ...

More and more researchers are investigating natural solutions to chronic pain, in the midst of America’s opioid epidemic. University of Utah researchers are looking to the ocean. Now, they've ...

UCLA biologists report they have transferred a memory from one marine snail to another, creating an artificial memory, by injecting RNA from one to another. This research could lead to new ways to ...

A tiny snail may offer an alternative to opioids for pain relief. Scientists at the University of Utah have found a compound that blocks pain by targeting a pathway not associated with opioids.

Feb. 20 (UPI) --A novel compound produced by a tiny marine snail species could inspire an alternative to opioids, the highly addictive class of pain killers. "Nature has evolved molecules that are ...

When it comes to finding new antibiotics, no place is too weird to look. Three separate teams of researchers have identified potentially useful antibiotics from some of the strangest places imaginable ...

1. Studies examining the integration of constitutive and inducible aspects of multivariate defensive phenotypes are rare. 2. I asked whether marine snails (Nucella lamellosa) from habitats with and ...

A cone snail lurks waiting for fish prey to swim past. Although moderately mobile, marine cone snails have perfected several strategies to capture prey. Some fish-hunting species release venom into ...