Biology

When the malaria-causing Plasmodium parasite first slips into the human bloodstream, injected by the bite of an infected mosquito, it does not immediately target red blood cells.
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It may sound like the stuff of fairy tales, but in the 1950s two numerical models initially developed as a pet project by physicists led to the birth of an entirely new field of physics: computational..
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Credit: Courtesy of Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network A new study has uncovered when and why the native vegetation that today dominates much of Australia first expanded across the continent. Th..
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Tiny gypsum crystals can make phytoplankton so heavy that they rapidly sink, hereby transporting large quantities of carbon to the ocean's depths. Experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute recent..
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Credit: Kristin Mello/UNH DURHAM, N.H. - When it comes to finding protection and a safe feeding ground, fish rely on towering blades of seaweed, like kelp, to create a three-dimensional hiding spac..
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Fossil fuels have long been the precursor to plastic, but new research from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and European collaborators could help send that era up in smoke - carbon dioxide, to be e..
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Credit: CREDIT: Milieniusz Spanowicz/Wildlife Conservation Society. LA PAZ, BOLIVIA (May 22, 2018) -- After a two-and-a-half-year expedition through the world's most biodiverse protected area,..
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Credit: 2018 Shoji Takeuchi, Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo Tokyo - The human brain is an exquisitely complex, organic CPU, made of trillions of connections between many b..
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Credit: Ali Freibott, US Forest Service When Mount St. Helens erupted 38 years ago today, it not only dramatically transformed more than 200 square miles that previously contained vast forests, fas..
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Credit: University of Basel, Yasunori Okamoto Complex reaction cascades can be triggered in artificial molecular systems: Swiss scientists have constructed an enzyme than can penetrate a mammalian ..
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Credit: Copyright: Ulrich Technau During embryonic development genetic cascades control gene activity and cell differentiation. In a new publication of the journal PNAS, the team of Ulrich Technau ..
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Credit: PLOS PLOS, in collaboration with GARDP, is delighted to announce the launch of the Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Channel during the World Health Assembly, Geneva. This new channel offers th..
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LSTM's Dr Maxine Caws is co-lead investigator on an advanced genetics study published in Nature Genetics(link is external), which has shown that a virulent strain of tuberculosis (TB) has adapted..
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Credit: Leibniz IZW, WWF Vietnam, USAID Song Thanh Nature Rerserve In November 2017 - under a biodiversity monitoring and assessment activity supported by the US Agency for International Developmen..
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