SAN DIEGO — Starfish — also known as sea stars — are native to San Diego, but about a decade ago, their population was nearly wiped out along the entire West Coast. CBS 8’s Jenny Day ...

Starfish, often known as sea stars, are enchanting marine creatures that belong to the class Asteroidea. Their unique radial symmetry and vibrant colors make them a fascinating subject to many marine ...

PADUCAH — Starfish Orphan Ministry, a nonprofit organization based in Paducah, said it has seen an increase in need in the community in part because of flooding caused by several days of heavy ...

A wearable device inspired by the starfish could soon revolutionize how we monitor heart health. Developed by researchers at the University of Missouri, the biomimetic device captures both electrical ...

Using AI technology, the device detects heart problems with over 90% accuracy, making it a promising tool for at-home monitoring.

In fact, the hormone isn’t even human-specific and initially evolved in marine animals like starfish. In their study published Monday in the peer-reviewed journal Proceedings of the National Academy ...

Scientists traced the appetite hormone bombesin back 500 million years Starfish use a similar hormone, ArBN, to control their feeding behavior This discovery may lead to new treatments for obesity ...

MIT researchers have found the way to control such movement using light. They worked with starfish egg cells, an organism which has been commonly utilized in the study of cell development.

This sped-up video (60x speed) shows the fascinating effect of ArBN on the common starfish (Asterias rubens). While ArBN doesn’t cause complete stomach retraction - it’s about 50% after 6 minutes.

Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Torino, Torino 10123, Italy School of Neurobiology, Biochemistry and Biophysics, The George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv ...

Deep in the underwater world, animals like starfish use unusual ways to escape predators. In an act called autotomy, starfish shed one or more of their limbs to flee their hunters. The severed, ...