Biology
A potential breeding site of a Miocene era baleen whale
Credit: Nobumichi Tamura Baleen whales are amongst the largest animals to have ever lived and yet very little is known...
Oropouche virus could emerge and cause a public health problem
After the Zika epidemic, which began in 2015, and the outbreak of yellow fever early in 2017, Brazil runs a...
Crystal structure reveals new details of nonstandard RNA transcription
Credit: Murakami laboratory, Penn State University Out through the window: Crystal structure reveals details of nonstandard RNA transcription University Park,...
Orange is the new green: How orange peels revived a Costa Rican forest
Credit: Photos courtesy of Daniel Janzen and Winnie Hallwachs PRINCETON, N.J.--In the mid-1990s, 1,000 truckloads of orange peels and orange...
New test for rare immunodeficiency
Researchers at the University of Basel have developed a test to quickly and reliably diagnose a rare and severe immune...
Where do heart cells come from?
Credit: James Short La Jolla, Calif., August 22, 2017 - Researchers from Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP), the...
Molecular volume control
Credit: (Photo: Scholz et al., 2017) The receptor studied by scientists from the universities of Würzburg and Leipzig over the...
Wealth disparity and family income impact the brain development of female youth
Credit: Provided by Baycrest Health Sciences Female teenagers living in neighbourhoods with wide salary gaps and a low-income household show...
Researchers discover how fish recognize toxic prey
Credit: Steve Clay Predator animals have long been known to avoid devouring brightly coloured and patterned prey, and now an...
‘Electronic skin’ takes wearable health monitors to the next level
Credit: DGIST A new, electronic skin microsystem tracks heart rate, respiration, muscle movement and other health data, and wirelessly transmits...
Plants under heat stress must act surprisingly quickly to survive
Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. - In new results reported in The Plant Cell, molecular biologist Elizabeth Vierling at the...
Repairing damaged hearts with self-healing heart cells
Credit: A*STAR's Genome Institute of Singapore Singapore - New research has discovered a potential means to trigger damaged heart cells...
Biofuels from bacteria
Credit: Photo by Jules Bernstein LIVERMORE, Calif.--You might not cook with this sugar, but from a biofuels standpoint, it's pretty...
Searching for the ‘signature’ causes of BRCAness in breast cancer
Breast cancer cells with defects in the DNA damage repair-genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 have a mutational signature (a pattern of...
Gut microbes may talk to the brain through cortisol
Credit: Stephanie Henry URBANA, Ill. - Gut microbes have been in the news a lot lately. Recent studies show they...
Collaborative effort aims to replace rabbit test for personal lubricant products
Washington, D.C. -- August 21, 2017 -- A first-of-its kind collaborative project is underway to find a non-animal test method...
Penn biologists show how plants turn off genes they don’t need
Credit: University of Pennsylvania A plant has one genome, a specific sequence of millions of basepairs of nucleotides. Yet how...
New report proposes framework to identify vulnerabilities posed by synthetic biology
WASHINGTON - Given the possible security vulnerabilities related to developments in synthetic biology - a field that uses technologies to...
Using machine learning to improve patient care
Doctors are often deluged by signals from charts, test results, and other metrics to keep track of. It can be...
Mechanism that impairs production of bovine embryos is revealed
Credit: elipe Perecin, University of São Paulo's Animal Science & Food Engineering School A longstanding obstacle to the market for...