A tiny molecule called bombesin links starfish and humans in appetite control, revealing a surprising evolutionary connection.

UK biologists traced the evolution of this neurohormone known as bombesin beyond mammals. Search led them to bombesin-like ...

Environmental DNA, or eDNA, can help us detect species by the traces they leave behind in their surroundings. This ...

A team of biologists at Queen Mary University of London has discovered that a neurohormone controlling appetite in humans has ...

Scientists have discovered that bombesin, a hunger-regulating hormone found in humans, dates back over 500 million years and ...

A team of biologists at Queen Mary University of London has discovered that a neurohormone controlling appetite in humans has an ancient evolutionary origin, dating back over half a billion years.

By helmutvogler The findings, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, reveal that this ...

Starfish have a unique way of eating: they evert their stomach out of their mouth to digest prey like mussels and oysters. “When I tested ArBN, I saw that it caused contraction of the starfish ...

The discovery could help develop new Ozempic-like weight-loss drugs. The post Study finds hormone controlling appetite comes ...

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