Biology

Credit: Elsevier London, March 6, 2018 - Ancient microbes may have been producing oxygen through photosynthesis a billion years earlier...

Poor mothers face greater scrutiny over their children’s weight

Low-income mothers who use food assistance programs face a high level of surveillance over their children's health and weight, new...

Who’s a good boy? Why ‘dog-speak’ is important for bonding with your pet

Scientists at the University of York have shown that the way we speak to our canine friends is important in...

The Biodiversity Literature Repository passes the 200,000-items milestone

Credit: Plazi and Pensoft Everyday a large number of biodiversity data are uploaded to the free and open Biodiversity Literature...

Without 46-million-year-old bacteria, turtle ants would need more bite and less armor

Credit: Photo by Jon Sanders. You've probably heard about poop pills, the latest way for humans to get benevolent bacteria...

Conservationists find birds in central African rain forest are facing major threats from bushmeat hunting

In a new study released this month, conservationists are sounding the alarm about a growing hunting crisis plaguing rainforests in...

Glaciers in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert actually shrank during the last ice age

Credit: Jigjidsurengiin Batbaatar/University of Washington The simple story says that during the last ice age, temperatures were colder and ice...

Green spaces in cities help control floods, store carbon

Credit: (Photo: Lauren Jensen) MADISON - For many ecologists, fieldwork involves majestic mountains or rushing rivers or large tracts of...

UGA researchers develop new method to improve crops

Credit: UGA Athens, Ga. - A team of University of Georgia researchers has developed a new way to breed plants...

Determining the cause of difficult-to-control mitochondrial diseases

March 7, 2018

Credit: Associate Professor Wei Fan-Yan A Japanese research group has discovered that taurine is conjugated with mitochondrial transfer RNAs (tRNAs),...

Bacteria resistant to last-resort antibiotic, missed by standard tests

Emory microbiologists have detected "heteroresistance" to colistin, a last-resort antibiotic, in already highly resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae, a bacterium that causes...

No fish story! Research finds marine reserves sustain broader fishing efforts

Credit: Florida Institute of Technology MELBOURNE, FLA. -- New research from Florida Institute of Technology finds that fish born in...

Plymouth researcher secures funding to further investigate treatment for neuro-tumors

Credit: University of Plymouth The University of Plymouth will be continuing its research into the advancement of neuro-tumour treatments thanks...

Scientists found a way to postpone cell death

Credit: Vladimir Gogvadze A team of scientists from MSU and the Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Biophysics of Russian Academy...

Technique allows live imaging of ‘ubiquitous’ player in cellular housekeeping

Credit: Gastroenterology and Hepatology,TMDU Tokyo - If you paid attention in biology class, you may vaguely recall the word "homeostasis."...

Producing handy gels from a protein found in human blood

Credit: Biomaterials Science / Royal Society of Chemistry From blood to the lab: the protein albumin is responsible for many...

Mammals share mechanisms controlling the heart with a 400-million-year-old fish

Credit: Gustavo M. Oda Primitive air-breathing fish, whose direct ancestors first appeared around 400 million years ago, show mechanisms controlling...

Genes for age-linked brain deterioration identified

Credit: Dr. Giuseppe Lupo The brain deteriorates with age because stem cells produce new brain cells more slowly Changes to...

Chaperones can hold protein in non-equilibrium states