Biology

September 4, 2025

Flexible and cost-effective fabrication of nature inspired structural colors

Throughout nature, colors generally arise from two sources: pigment colors and structural colors. For application purposes, pigments or dyes that...

Controlling memory by triggering specific brain waves during sleep

Credit: (background image modified from freepik.com) Have you ever tried to recall something just before going to sleep and then...

Changes in conservation planning can benefit vulnerable mammals

Credit: Ana Davidson Right now, a prairie dog in Colorado is busy increasing soil carbon retention, increasing water infiltration, and...

Single molecule microRNA technology proves useful for liver toxicity detection

Quanterix Corporation, a company digitizing biomarker analysis with the goal of advancing the science of precision health, and DestiNA Genomics...

How plants grow like human brains

Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA -- (July 6, 2017) Plants and brains are more alike than you might think: Salk...

Into the quantum world with a tennis racket

Credit: Steffen Glaser / TUM Quantum technology is seen as an important future-oriented technology: smaller, faster and with higher performance...

ASHG honors Edward McCabe with 2017 Advocacy Award

Credit: courtesy March of Dimes BETHESDA, MD - The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) has named Edward R.B. McCabe,...

‘Nanolock’ detects cancer mutation; could lead to early diagnoses, personalized therapies

The moment when healthy cells turn into cancer cells is a critical point. And if caught early enough, many cancers...

In the egg, American bullfrogs learn how to avoid becoming lunch

CORVALLIS, Ore. - When exposed to potential predators as an embryo, the invasive American bullfrog becomes harder to kill when...

A whole-genome sequenced rice mutant resource for the study of biofuel feedstocks

Credit: Guotian Li and Rashmi Jain/Berkeley Lab Rice is a staple food for over half of the world's population and...

Ancient animal thought to be first air breather on land loses claim to fame

Credit: University of Texas Jackson School of Geosciences AUSTIN, Texas -- Some good scientific sleuthing by an undergraduate at The...

International ERATO Itami Molecular Nanocarbon Symposium 2017

(Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (ITbM), Nagoya University) The International ERATO Itami Molecular Nanocarbon Symposium 2017 will be held on Aug....

The costs of coal storage and its impact on disadvantaged communities

While the negative health and environmental effects of mining and burning coal are well documented, simply transporting and storing coal...

Reconciling predictions of climate change

Harvard University researchers have resolved a conflict in estimates of how much the Earth will warm in response to a...

Know your enemy: Exposing threatened species to predators improves evasive behaviors

Credit: Hugh McGregor A study of burrowing bettongs in the Australian desert has shown for the first time that exposing...

An experimental technique analyses the functioning of human sperm before being inseminated

Credit: CRG The research, presented at the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) annual conference, which ends today...

Recognition and mechanisms of chemical and environmental sensitivities in ecopsychology

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, July 5, 2017--A comprehensive look at the under-recognized problem of environmental...

Flowers’ genome duplication contributes to their spectacular diversity

The evolution of plants has been punctuated by major innovations, none more striking among living plants than the flower. Flowering...

Sex now needs to be included as a biological variable in NIH-funded research, but how?

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, July 5, 2017--The National Institutes of Health (NIH) instituted a policy...

Scientists take a deeper dive into cellular trash