Biology

November 13, 2025

$3.2 million grant to The Jackson Laboratory for study of new ALS candidate gene

A new five-year federal research grant totaling $3,322,009 to The Jackson Laboratory (JAX) will fund studies of a new mouse...

Materials governed by light

Credit: Rebeca Sola. UPV/EHU Hybrid materials are those that combine components of differing origins (organic and inorganic) in order to...

Molecular biologists discover an active role of membrane lipids in health and disease

Credit: Robert Ernst All living cells that grow and divide have a constant demand for producing new proteins and new...

New model for bimolecular reactions in nanoreactors

Credit: HZB Nanoreactors are tiny systems which facilitate specific chemical reactions, as a catalyst does. Many are found in biological...

Seasonal effects: ‘Winter foals’ are smaller than foals born in summer

Credit: Juliane Kuhl/Vetmeduni Vienna Seasonal and diurnal rhythms determine the life cycle of many animal species. In equids this is...

New botulinum neurotoxin discovered — potential to treat a number of medical conditions

Credit: Pål Stenmark Botulinum toxins are currently used on more than 80 medical conditions including Muscle spasms, Overactive bladder, Chronic...

The biology of color

Credit: Tim Caro/UC Davis Scientists are on a threshold of a new era of color science due largely to an...

Humans have been altering tropical forests for at least 45,000 years

Credit: Patrick Roberts The first review of the global impact of humans on tropical forests in the ancient past shows...

Bioprinted veins reveal new drug diffusion details

WASHINGTON, D.C., Aug. 3, 2017 -- Artificially constructed human tissues and organs have been developed with a number of different...

Discovery points to drugs that would ‘short-circuit’ deadly leukemia

Researchers at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have discovered that survival of a particularly aggressive form of acute myeloid leukemia...

Plant pathology professors receive $1.2 million to study, catalog Fusarium fungi

David Geiser and Seogchan Kang, professors of plant pathology and environmental biology in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences, received...

Forensic entomologist unearths Chinese migrant fly in Europe

Credit: University of Huddersfield AN insect that was once found mainly in China and in South America has begun to...

Goldschmidt — the world’s major geochemistry conference

The Goldschmidt conference, the world's biggest and most important geochemistry conference, takes place in Paris from 13 to 18 August....

University of Maryland School of Medicine receives grant to develop vaccine

BALTIMORE, MD. - The University of Maryland School of Medicine (UM SOM) has been awarded a three-year, $2.47 million grant...

Study finds climate plays role in decline of one of Asia’s most critical water resources

Credit: Kansas State University MANHATTAN, Kan. -- Climate variability -- rather than the presence of a major dam -- is...

Sociologists to explore culture, inequalities, and social inclusion at annual meeting in Montreal

MONTREAL--More than 5,500 sociologists will convene in Montreal this August to explore scientific research relating to social inequality and many...

DNA provides new insights on the control of invasive Russian knapweed

Credit: Jeffrey L. Littlefield. A recent study featured in the journal Invasive Plant Science and Management sheds new light on...

New dust sources from a shrinking Salton Sea have negative ecological and health impacts

Credit: NASA. RIVERSIDE, Calif. - Scientists at the University of California, Riverside investigating the composition of particulate matter (PM) and...

Could mutations and inherited genes play a role in cerebral palsy?

Hemiplegic cerebral palsy hampers movement in one side of a person's body. In the first genetic study of its kind...

New report gives methods for developing dietary reference intakes based on chronic disease