Biology

Credit: Rita Valente, IGC. Bacteria "conversation" may be an early trigger for plant pathogens virulence, show scientists from Instituto Gulbenkian...

Chemicals found in cigarette smoke have been shown to damage foetal liver cells. Scientists say the potent cocktail of chemicals...

Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA--In humans, developing metabolic disease, particularly type 2 diabetes, is correlated with having bacteria that penetrate...

Credit: Christian Gortázar Schmidt Hunting as an outdoor activity is underrated in how it helps nature and society to regulate...

As Earth warms due to human-caused climate change, extreme climatic events like heat waves, droughts, and spikes in ocean temperatures...

In a research article recently published in Frontiers in Chemistry, a team of researchers investigated the effects of fungal infection...

Credit: Karen Kloth All living organisms harbour complex chemical networks inside their cells. The sum of all these chemical reactions...

Following a competitive, EU-wide application process, the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria) has succeeded in obtaining funds...

Credit: Ariana Strandburg-Peshkin How do baboons succeed in coordinating the movements of their group? Biologists at the University of Konstanz...

Credit: University of Zurich Roughly 2-3 percent of all people suffering from cancer have kidney cancer. The most common form...

Research by PhD candidate Nicola Bryson-Morrison from the University of Kent's School of Anthropology and Conservation (SAC) suggests chimpanzees are...

Credit: Professor David Finlay, Trinity College Dublin. Glucose - commonly referred to as a 'simple' sugar - may actually be...

The origin of animals was one of the most important events in the history of Earth. Beautifully preserved fossil embryos...

A new tool enables identification of high-end caviar from Beluga sturgeons by analyzing DNA from a single caviar, a development...