Biology
DNA shows where Washington culvert replacements helped spawning salmon
To help struggling salmon populations, the state of Washington is legally required to replace hundreds of culverts that divert streams...
Unearthing the ecological impacts of cicada emergences on North American forests
WASHINGTON (October 19, 2023) – Every 13 or 17 years, billions of cicadas emerge from the ground to reproduce in...
A change in rigidity switches the function of protein condensates involved in sensing touch
Touch plays a fundamental role in our physical, emotional, and social well-being. From a primary way of conveying emotions to...
10% of high-latitude wilderness may be threatened by agriculture as the climate warms
Expansions in crop farming across the globe are the biggest driving force of biodiversity loss in the wild. Now, in...
First Nations-led A.I. technology holds promise for salmon recovery
Scientists and natural resource managers from Canadian First Nations, governments, academic institutions, and conservation organizations published the first results of...
Fighting antimicrobial resistance with new drug combinations
Antimicrobial resistance – occurring when pathogens can survive antibiotic treatment – is one of the most rapidly emerging global public...
Do adult periodical cicadas actually feed on anything?
Annapolis, MD; October 18, 2023—Every so often, cicadas emerge above ground and blanket the earth with their exoskeletons while emitting...
New insights into the genetics of the common octopus: genome at the chromosome level decoded
Octopuses are fascinating animals – and serve as important model organisms in neuroscience, cognition research and developmental biology. To gain...
Texas A&M receives over $1 million in USDA grants to study SARS-CoV-2 in deer
Texas A&M University scientists and research partners have received two National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Agriculture and Food...
Orchid without bumblebee on island finds wasp, loses self
Because the bumblebee that an orchid relies on for pollination does not exist on a remote island, the plant gets...
How to help save plants from extinction
Now is the time to identify the conditions that cause plants to die. Doing so will allow us to better...
Andrea Califano receives Alfred G. Knudson award from NCI
Andrea Califano, Dr, has been honored with the 26th Alfred G. Knudson Award in Cancer Genetics by the National Cancer...
Extinct ape gets a facelift, 12 million years later
A new study led by scientists at the American Museum of Natural History, Brooklyn College, and the Catalan Institute of...
Marine bacteria take a bite at plastic pollution
Joint press release by Hokkaido University and the Mitsubishi Chemical GroupCredit: Yutaro Kimura et al., Environmental Microbiology, September 29, 2023....
Advancing solutions: SELINA gathers members and stakeholders for the second thematic workshop
The second SELINA thematic workshop took place from 2-5 October 2023 in Madrid, Spain, hosted by SELINA’s partner Rey Juan...
OmicsSuite: A customized and pipelined suite for analysis and visualization of multi-omics big data
Abstract:Credit: Horticulture Research Abstract: With the advancements in high-throughput sequencing technologies such as Illumina, PacBio, and 10X Genomics platforms, and...
Researchers construct first “multiome” atlas of cell development in the human cerebral cortex from before birth to adulthood
A team of researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Yale University School of Medicine has...
MOBIOS+: An extensive database for advancing Mindanao Island’s biodiversity
The Philippine Archipelago, with more than 7,100 islands, has one of the highest levels of endemism globally and is a...
Flagship individuals can boost conservation
“Flagship” individual animals like Cecil the lion or Freya the walrus can boost conservation, new research suggests.Credit: L Candisani “Flagship”...
AI speeds up identification brain tumor type
What type of brain tumor does this patient have? AI technology helps to determine this as early as during surgery,...
