Biology
USC Stem Cell study shows how gene activity modulates the amount of immune cell production in mice
As people age or become ill, their immune systems can become exhausted and less capable of fighting off viruses such...
Cultivated meat production costs could fall significantly with new cells created at Tufts University
Cellular agriculture – the production of meat from cells grown in bioreactors rather than harvested from farm animals – is...
Estuarine Management and Technologies: A brand new journal streamlines innovation in the conservation of estuarine ecosystems
Where freshwater rivers meet seas and oceans lies a scientifically intriguing and ecologically important type of ecosystem. As estuarine ecosystems...
Teaching nature to break man-made chemical bonds
For the first time, scientists have engineered an enzyme that can break stubborn man-made bonds between silicon and carbon that...
Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz receives the Dickson Prize in Science
Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, a senior group leader at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus and head of Janelia’s 4D Cellular Physiology research area, has...
Scientists at EMBL Heidelberg discover how ancient ‘relaxant-inflammatory’ molecules get sponges (and blood vessels) moving
Did you know that sponges can move? While not exactly the champions of underwater acrobatics, sponges exhibit coordinated movements —...
IPK researchers elucidate the variability and adaptability of internode elongation in barley
Plant architecture is the outcome of several successive developmental processes that can be classified into two events: organogenesis and extension....
These male marsupials give up sleep for sex
All animals need sleep. When humans or animals don’t get enough, it can lead to trouble paying attention, irritability, and...
World’s first successful embryo transfer in rhinos paves the way for saving the northern white rhinos from extinction
Credit: photo by Jan Zwilling/BioRescue BioRescue, an international consortium of scientists and conservationists, succeeded in achieving the world’s first...
Galápagos penguin is exposed to and may accumulate microplastics at high rate within its food web, modelling suggests
Modelling shows how microplastics may bioaccumulate in the Galápagos Islands food web, with Galápagos penguins most affected, according to a...
New pieces in the puzzle of first life on Earth
Microorganisms were the first forms of life on our planet. The clues are written in 3.5 billion-year-old rocks by geochemical...
New model predicts how shoe properties affect a runner’s performance
A good shoe can make a huge difference for runners, from career marathoners to couch-to-5K first-timers. But every runner is...
Exposure to flame retardants linked to premature birth, higher birth weight
(SACRAMENTO, Calif.) — In the largest study of its kind, researchers at UC Davis Health found that exposure to organophosphate...
New study unveils how plants control the production of reactive oxygen species
Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are highly reactive molecules containing oxygen. These compounds, which are normal byproducts of biological processes in...
The fountain of youth is … a T cell?
The fountain of youth has eluded explorers for ages. It turns out the magic anti-aging elixir might have been inside...
Marine heat waves trigger shift in hatch dates and early growth of Pacific cod
Marine heat waves appear to trigger earlier reproduction, high mortality in early life stages and fewer surviving juvenile Pacific cod...
When conditions cool down, a bacterial prey species becomes the predator
In a new study, two species of bacteria grown in a lab reversed their predator-prey relationship after one species was...
Dirk Görlich receives Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine 2024
The Louis-Jeantet Foundation honors the Director at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Multidisciplinary Sciences for discovering a new kind...
Bloom-forming cyanobacteria and dinoflagellates in five Argentinian reservoirs: a multi-year sampling
Harmful algal blooms (HABs), characterized by the proliferation of detrimental algae and cyanobacteria, occur worldwide. HABs include any event causing...
Complex green organisms emerged a billion years ago
Of all the organisms that photosynthesize, land plants have the most complex bodies. How did this morphology emerge? A team...
