Biology
Deadly bug strikes in a day
A deadly bacteria that can be picked up by a simple sniff can travel to the brain and spinal cord...
Deadly fungus affecting hibernating bats could spread during summer
Credit: Alan Hicks, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. Public domain. The cold-loving fungus (Pseudogymnoascus destructans, or Pd) that...
A surprizing finding shines new light on the largest group of human…
Credit: Frank Schmitges et al. Toronto scientists have discovered that the largest group of human proteins, which work as genome...
Too near, or too far? What fruit flies teach us about personal space
Credit: Anne F. Simon, Western University, Canada Most of us have had the experience of backing away when someone has...
A new method used to generate ensemble initial perturbations
Credit: Advances in Atmospheric Sciences The atmosphere is a chaotic system, and even negligible initial errors will give rise to...
New dominant ant species discovered in Ethiopia shows potential for global invasion
Credit: D. Magdalena Sorger RALEIGH, N.C. — A team of scientists conducting a recent biodiversity survey in the ancient church...
Zika virus: Optimized tests for reliable diagnosis
Credit: cdc/Cynthia Goldsmith DZIF scientists from the University of Bonn have shown that not all conventional Zika virus molecular diagnostic...
Public wheat breeder consortium to be developed by USDA grant
Credit: (Texas A&M AgriLife photo by Kay Ledbetter) AMARILLO – Texas A&M AgriLife Research's wheat genetic and breeding programs will...
Targeted orphaned domain may lead to drug therapies
Credit: Credit TTUHSC "Pentameric quaternary structure of the intracellular domain of serotonin type 3A receptors," was published in the April...
UM Rosenstiel school scientists awarded over $14 million to advance…
Credit: UM Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science MIAMI – Researchers at the UM Rosenstiel School of Marine and...
Queen’s University microbiologists unmask the Hannibal route enigma
Microbiologists based in the Institute for Global Food Security and School of Biological Sciences at Queen's University Belfast have recently...
How Snapdragons keep their colour: Signposting trick reveals evolutionary mechanism
Credit: Professor Enrico Coen A study of the colour patterns among wild flowers in a mountain valley has yielded a...
Head partitions reduce stress in goats during feeding
Competition in the goat pen is especially high during feeding time. Social tension rises and there is an increased frequency...
What free will looks like in the brain
Johns Hopkins University researchers are the first to glimpse the human brain making a purely voluntary decision to act. Unlike...
New method predicts who will respond to lithium therapy
Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA — (March 20, 2017) For roughly one-third of people diagnosed with bipolar disorder, lithium is...
Biogerontology Research Foundation trustee to keynote at the Digital…
Credit: Digital Health World Congress Friday, November 24th, 2017, London, UK: The Biogerontology Research Foundation is pleased to announce that...
Jaguar scat study suggests restricted movement in areas of conservation importance in Mesoamerica
Credit: © Panthera-ICF A research group led by the American Museum of Natural History and global wild cat conservation organization...
New supercomputer simulations enhance understanding of protein motion and function
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Nov. 23, 2015–Supercomputing simulations at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory could change how researchers...
How females store sperm
Credit: Image courtesy of the Graduate School of Biosphere Science, Hiroshima University. The science of breeding chickens has revealed part...
OU study demonstrates seasonality of bird migration in response to environmental cues
Credit: University of Oklahoma A University of Oklahoma study demonstrates for the first time that remote sensing data from weather...