Researchers unlock cheesemaking secret
Credit: University of Queensland Researchers say their new knowledge on the inner workings of a bacterium has important implications for ...
The laws of attraction: Pheromones don’t lie, fruit fly research suggests
Credit: University of Michigan ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Life as a fruit fly seems pretty simple: Hatch, grow, eat some ...
Agroindustrial waste can be used as material for housing and infrastructure
Converting waste into resources, substituting toxic raw materials for healthy inputs, migrating from harmful to sustainable production processes. These are ...
New gene catalog of ocean microbiome reveals surprises
Credit: HOT Program, UHM SOEST Microbes dominate the planet, especially the ocean, and help support the entire marine food web. ...
SLU biologist receives $480,000 to study singing insects’ serenades
Credit: Ellen Hutti, Saint Louis University ST. LOUIS - Thanks to a recent $480,000 grant from the National Science Foundation ...
Early Indian Ocean trade routes bring chicken, black rat to eastern Africa
Credit: Photo credit: Mark Horton The earliest introduction of domestic chickens and black rats from Asia to the east coast ...
Bacteria stab amoebae with micro-daggers
Credit: Leo Popovich Bacteria have to watch out for amoeba. Hungry amoebae hunt them: they catch them with their pseudopodia ...
Two-step process leads to cell immortalization and cancer
A mutation that helps make cells immortal is critical to the development of a tumor, but new research at the ...
Study of nervous system cells can help to understand degenerative diseases
Credit: Suely Nagahashi Marie and Thais Galatro, University of São Paulo Medical School The results of a new research showed ...
Female mouse embryos actively remove male reproductive systems
Credit: NIEHS A protein called COUP-TFII determines whether a mouse embryo develops a male reproductive tract, according to researchers at ...
Antibiotics found to weaken body’s ability to fight off disease
Credit: Sanjay Suchak, University Communications Adding another reason for doctors to avoid the overuse of antibiotics, new research shows that ...
Collagen in cartilage tissues behaves like liquid crystals in a smart phone screen
Cartilage in our joints contains collagen which behaves a bit like the liquid crystals on a smart phone screen, according ...
Poisonings went hand in hand with the drinking water in Pompeii
Credit: SDU The ancient Romans were famous for their advanced water supply. But the drinking water in the pipelines was ...
How the genome sets its functional micro-architecture
Credit: Pierre Fabre and Lucille Lopez-Delisle/EPFL The genes that are involved in the development of the fetus are activated in ...
Scientist emphasizes importance of multi-level thinking
Credit: Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences An unusual paper "On multi-level thinking and scientific understanding" appears in ...
First successful wild whale shark health assessments performed
Credit: Georgia Aquarium ATLANTA (Aug. 2, 2017) - For the first time ever, scientists successfully performed health assessments, including collecting ...
Peroxisomes identified as ‘fighters’ in the battle against bacterial infections
Credit: Melissa Fabrizio A new addition to the fight against bacteria comes in the unlikely form of an organelle that ...
Slowing dangerous bacteria may be more effective than killing them, researchers report
Credit: Illustration by Jennifer Oosthuizen, CDC CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Researchers at the University of Illinois have discovered a mechanism that ...
Scientists compare soil microbes in no-till, conventional tilling systems of Pacific Northwest farms
Credit: The American Phytopathological Society St. Paul, Minn. (August 2017)--In recent decades, growers have increasingly been adopting no-till farming to ...
Smells like queen spirit
Credit: JUERGEN LIEBIG RIVERSIDE, Calif. (http://www.ucr.edu) -- Queen ants spend most of their time having babies. To reign supreme in ...
