Biology

November 11, 2025

Wayne State University receives $1.9 million NIH grant to study bacterial endophthalmitis

Credit: Julie O'Connor, Wayne State University DETROIT - A Wayne State University researcher recently received a $1.9 million grant from...

RIT wins Department of Energy award to improve wiring for advanced electric equipment

Researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology are working with corporate and government partners to develop more efficient, durable and cost-effective...

Does exercise facilitate body weight control? The answer may depend on sex.

Healthcare practitioners regularly prescribe diet and exercise as a method for patients to lose weight. But exercise might not be...

New bacterial defense mechanism of the CRISPR-Cas system uncovered

The CRISPR-Cas system is an immune system that is found in many bacteria. It provides protection from viruses and other...

Sequencing reveals how Porphyra thrives in a tough environment

Credit: Photo courtesy of Susan Brawley Orono, Me-- Sequencing of the nuclear genome of Porphyra umbilicalis -- laver or Atlantic...

Helping EU cities and regions cut carbon emissions

Credit: Graphic: NTNU Industrial Ecology Programme/ Environmental Research Letters In 1915, a Scottish town planner and social activist named Patrick...

Heart tissues of different origins can ‘beat’ in sync

Credit: Konstantin Agladze Researchers from MIPT and the University of Bonn (Germany) have shown that heart tissues of different origins...

At the cellular level, a child’s loss of a father is associated with increased stress

The absence of a father -- due to incarceration, death, separation or divorce -- has adverse physical and behavioral consequences...

Harvard researchers describe pneumatic actuator that generates cyclical motion

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, July 18, 2017--A new study demonstrated the design, potential applications, and...

Did life begin on land rather than in the sea?

For three years, Tara Djokic, a Ph.D. student at the University of New South Wales Sydney, scoured the forbidding landscape...

Epigenetics between the generations

Credit: MPI of Immunobiology a. Epigenetics/ F. Zenk We are more than the sum of our genes. Epigenetic mechanisms modulated...

DNA tracking tool tips the scales for distinguishing invasive fish

ITHACA, N.Y. - Rather than conduct an aquatic roll call with nets to know which fish reside in a particular...

Researchers at IRB Barcelona discover a crucial gene involved in the development of the placenta

Credit: S. Segura-Bayona, IRB Barcelona The placenta, a transient organ that links the developing embryo to its mother, is responsible...

In baby’s dirty diapers, the clues to baby’s brain development

Credit: UNC School of Medicine CHAPEL HILL - If you're the parent of an infant, diaper duty probably isn't your...

New test paves way for potential treatments to target Alzheimer’s and other conditions

A simple methodology for capturing proteins implicated in the development of Alzheimer's disease and other conditions has been developed by...

Team develops fast, cheap method to make supercapacitor electrodes