Biology

A new review proposes that primary pathogens act as keystone drivers of plant disease complexes, breaching barriers, suppressing immunity, and...

Snail conditioned water from other snail species delayed parasite development and reduced cercarial production in Schistosoma mansoni-infected Biomphalaria alexandrina in...

Researchers have developed an exact fixed-parameter algorithm and a fast heuristic for deciding whether undirected phylogenetic networks can be oriented...

A cross-sectional study at an Ethiopian specialized hospital found 78.4 percent of sampled medical equipment and surfaces contaminated with bacteria,...

Single-nucleus RNA sequencing shows that Cd47 loss shifts the mouse hippocampal transcriptome toward a state resembling mild excitotoxic stress.

Researchers found that the nuclear shuttle protein encoded by DNA-B determines whether selected tomato leaf curl New Delhi virus strains...

A PLOS Pathogens study shows that SARS-CoV-2 RNA, nucleocapsid protein and anti-N IgG1 form immune complexes that trigger inflammatory cytokines...

A picobirnavirus from human faeces has been shown to replicate inside a gut bacterium, establishing the Picobirnaviridae as the third...

A new review summarizes how basal stem cells sustain lifelong olfactory epithelium renewal and how single-cell and organoid technologies are...

New micro-CT evidence from the Early Cretaceous eutherian Cokotherium reveals a vestigial ossified Meckelian cartilage likely disconnected from the middle...

PathwayDenester re-evaluates enriched pathways by testing whether their significance depends on overlapping, more significant terms, filtering out 40 to 90...

Days-long live imaging of developing fruit fly pupae reveals that tarsal epithelial cells transiently build a pillar-supported Parthenon-like structure while...

Deleting the FpSmi1 gene in Fusarium pseudograminearum impairs fungal growth, spore formation and virulence while altering triazole fungicide sensitivity.

A synthesis of 86 years of experimental infections found that disease occurrence, mortality and severity in bats were indistinguishable from...

A study of 176 middle-aged men found that masculine physical traits and testosterone did not independently predict biological aging markers,...

A new executive report from the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology argues that biodiversity has been shaped over millennia by...

A large-scale integration of human phosphoproteomics datasets identifies seven predominant phosphorylation sites on PHIP and links their co-regulation to insulin...

A study of 88 Czech households found that dust bacterial genera including Methylobacterium-Methylorubrum and Sphingomonas were associated with higher concentrations...

Combined metabolome and transcriptome profiling of Lonicera macranthoides flowers shows chlorogenic acid, macranthoidin B, and total saponins peak at the...

A new review in Botanical Studies examines how flowering time genes, plant hormones, gene editing and AI-driven greenhouse systems can...