Biology
Protein mingling under blue light
Credit: IBS One of the current challenges in biology is to understand rapidly-changing phenomena. Interestingly, only a small fraction of...
Bioengineers create more durable, versatile wearable for diabetes monitoring
Credit: University of Texas at Dallas Researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas are getting more out of the...
NIST/CU team launches ‘comb and copter’ system to map atmospheric gases
Credit: Jennifer Lauren Lee/NIST Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Colorado Boulder...
Dune ecosystem modelling
Credit: Photo: Christine Hellmann Acacia longifolia, which is native to Australia, is a species which was cultivated in Portugal primarily...
Sweet bribes for ants are key to crops bearing fruit, study shows
Credit: Nora Villamil-Buenrostro Flowering crops such as beans and cotton offer their sweetest nectar to recruit colonising ants in a...
Biophysical Journal selects poster award winners at Single-Cell Biophysics Thematic Meeting
The Biophysical Society is pleased to announce winners of the Biophysical Journal Outstanding Poster Awards given at the "Single-Cell Biophysics:...
Study shines light on brain cells that coordinate movement
Credit: Horwitz Lab/UW Medicine Seattle UW Medicine researchers have developed a technique for inserting a gene into specific cell types...
New 3-D model predicts best planting practices for farmers
Credit: Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign As farmers survey their fields this summer,...
Sea sponges stay put with anchors that bend but don’t break
Credit: Kesari Lab/Brown Universtiy PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Sea sponges known as Venus' flower baskets remain fixed to the sea floor...
Tourette Syndrome risk increases in people with genetic copy variations
An international team that just conducted the largest study of Tourette Syndrome has identified genetic abnormalities that are the first...
How pheromones trigger female sexual behavior
Credit: 2017 Kazushige Touhara. A study by a group of Japanese scientists showed how a male pheromone in mice enhances...
Select memories can be erased, leaving others intact
Credit: Schacher Lab/Columbia University Medical Center New York, NY (June 22, 2017) -- Different types of memories stored in the...
Biofilms — the eradication has begun
Credit: Brendan Snarr, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre Montreal, June 22 2017 - Have you ever heard...
Cleveland Clinic discovers similarities between next-generation prostate cancer drugs
Cleveland: Cleveland Clinic researchers have shown for the first time how a class of advanced prostate cancer drugs are processed...
Paracetamol during pregnancy can inhibit masculinity
Paracetamol is popular for relieving pain. But if you are pregnant, you should think twice before popping these pills according...
Ecology insights improve plant biomass degradation by microorganisms
Credit: Diego Javier Jiménez Microbes are widely used to break down plant biomass into sugars, which can be used as...
NRL issued patent for solar microbial fuel cell
Credit: (U.S. Naval Research Laboratory) WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering, has...
Satellite data to map endangered monkey populations on Earth
Earth Observation technology can map human settlements to predict where monkey populations have declined through hunting 'High-throughput DNA sequencing' can...
On polygamous females and single-parent males
Credit: Photo: Bielefeld University/ L. Eberhart-Phillips Male plovers survive more successfully in the wild than females. Behavioural researchers at Bielefeld...
Lab grown human colons change study of GI disease
Credit: Cincinnati Children's CINCINNATI - Scientists used human pluripotent stem cells to generate human embryonic colons in a laboratory that...
