Biology
How yeast cells regulate their fat balance
Credit: GU FRANKFURT. Not only humans but also each of their body cells must watch their fat balance. Fats perform...
Size matters: How thrips choose their partners
Credit: Stephanie Krüger / MLU The bigger the male, the higher his chances to successfully mate – this applies, at...
New book on The Cytoskeleton from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
Credit: The specimen was prepared and imaged by Rosmarie Suetterlin and Cora-Ann Schoenenberger at the Maurice E. Muller Institute for...
Nature’s smallest rainbows, created by peacock spiders, may inspire new optical…
Credit: Dr. Jürgen C. Otto, co-author Brightly colored Australian peacock spiders (Maratus spp.) captivate even the most arachnophobic viewers with...
Fanged friends: World’s most vilified and dangerous animals may be humankind’s best ally
Credit: Julie Larsen Maher/WCS NEW YORK (January 18, 2018) – An international review led by the University of Queensland and...
In vitro tests of Vype vapor reveal no cell stress, DNA damage or cell transformation
A series of cell-based tests developed to compare the biological impact of cigarette smoke with e-cigarette vapour revealed no activity...
Why your ancestors would have aced the long jump
Credit: Photo by Douglas Boyer, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. — A 52-million-year-old ankle fossil suggests our prehuman ancestors were high-flying...
Migration ranges of flying birds depend on body size and flight style
Credit: NIPR The decades-long tracking of flying birds reveals that body size and flight styles determine the scale of birds'...
World’s smallest tape recorder is built from microbes
Credit: T. Frenzel et al., Science (2017) NEW YORK, NY (Nov. 23, 2017) — Through a few clever molecular hacks,...
Stem cell therapy improves outcomes in severe heart failure
CHICAGO (April 4, 2016) — A new stem cell therapy significantly improved long-term health outcomes in patients with severe and...
Fatal attractions for disease-carrying mosquitoes
Credit: Photo by Jesse Saroli, ISCA Technologies Mosquitoes, mostly through the transmission of malaria, are the deadliest animals on Earth....
Popular sungazer lizards under threat from poaching
Credit: Shivan Parusnath/Wits University The Sungazer (Smaug giganteus), a dragon-like lizard species endemic to the Highveld regions of South Africa,...
Blood pressure medicine may improve conversational skills of individuals with autism
IMAGE: University of Missouri researchers have found that a medication commonly used to treat high blood pressure and irregular heartbeats...
Flexible ‘skin’ can help robots, prosthetics perform everyday tasks by sensing shear force
Credit: UCLA Engineering If a robot is sent to disable a roadside bomb — or delicately handle an egg while...
How liver cancer develops
Credit: USZ Liver cancer is the second-leading cause of cancer-related death and represents the fastest rising cancer worldwide. In most...
Still changing after all these years
EAST LANSING, Mich. – If Paul Simon were to write a song about the bacteria in Richard Lenski's long-term evolution...
Deadly parasite messaging tactic may help curb sleeping sickness
Professor Keith Matthews, of the School of Biological Sciences New insight into sleeping sickness suggests communication between parasites that cause...
HKU and international researchers promote marine fisheries reform in China
Credit: Cheng Tai-sing A study highlighting the challenges and opportunities of fishery management in China has just been released in...
Some bats develop resistance to devastating fungal disease
Credit: J. R. Hoyt Bat populations in some places in North America appear to have developed resistance to the deadly...
A virus lethal to amphibians is spreading across Portugal
Credit: Gonçalo M. Rosa A new strain of ranavirus is currently causing mass mortality in several species of amphibian in...
