Biology
Pepper plant sops up personal care product antibiotic
It sometimes can be hard to find toothpastes, soaps and other toiletries without antibiotics. Their popularity has caused an increase...
Scientists discover a role for ‘junk’ DNA
ANN ARBOR -- Researchers at the University of Michigan Life Sciences Institute and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute have determined...
Research gives new understanding of 17th century Scottish natural history
Credit: Lee Raye In a new paper published in the Royal Society Journal of the History of Science: Notes and...
Biologically inspired membrane purges coal-fired smoke of greenhouse gases
Credit: Randy Montoya, Sandia National Laboratories ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A biologically inspired membrane intended to cleanse carbon dioxide almost completely...
Synchrotron science could give soybeans a boost
Scientists at the University of Liverpool, together with Japanese colleagues, have gained new insight into how soil bacteria sense and...
How to catch a fish genome with big data
Credit: Fishbase If you eat fish in the U.S., chances are it once swam in another country. That's because the...
Surprising discovery: Sweet tooth gene connected with less body fat
People with a gene variation of FGF21 have a predisposition to less body fat than others, new research conducted at...
Moving patient treatment forward through Diagnostics North East
A platform bringing together world-leading diagnostic resources and expertise to develop new and innovative technologies to improve patient health and...
MIPT delivers world’s first biosensor chips based on copper and graphene oxide
Credit: Lion_on_Helium/MIPT Press Office Russian researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology have developed biosensor chips of unprecedented...
Study reveals declining central American frog species are bouncing back
Credit: Photo by Louise Rollins-Smith, Ph.D. For more than 40 years, frog populations around the world have been declining. Now,...
Swansea scientists discover greener way of making plastics
Credit: European Regional Development Fund Researchers at the Energy Safety Research Institute (ESRI) at Swansea University have found a way...
New bioinformatics tool identifies and classifies CRISPR-Cas systems
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, April 11, 2018--Designed to improve the utility and availability of increasingly...
Most primitive kangaroo ancestor rediscovered after 30 years in obscurity
Credit: Richard Tedford A handful of tiny teeth have led scientists to identify the most distant ancestor of today's kangaroos....
One thing leads to another: Causal chains link health, development, and conservation
The BioScience Talks podcast features discussions of topical issues related to the biological sciences. The linkages between environmental health and...
Digital penicillin production
Credit: TU Wien For thousands of years, micro-organisms have been used to facilitate chemical reactions - in beer brewing, for...
Vampire bats’ bloody teamwork
Many mammals consume blood as part of their diet, but blood is actually a pretty poor source of energy. Only...
Competing in a global innovation economy: The current state of R&D in Canada
Credit: Council of Canadian Academies A new expert panel report, released today by the Council of Canadian Academies (CCA), provides...
Scientists learn how to avoid a roadblock when reprogramming cells
SAN FRANCISCO, CA--April 10, 2018--Over a decade ago, Shinya Yamanaka and Kazutoshi Takahashi made a discovery that would revolutionize biomedical...
When enemies come to help
Credit: Anina C. Knauer Interactions between organisms such as plants and animals can be found everywhere in nature. Anina Knauer...
Berkeley engineers build smallest volume, most efficient wireless nerve stimulator
Credit: Rikky Muller In 2016, University of California, Berkeley, engineers demonstrated the first implanted, ultrasonic neural dust sensors, bringing closer...