Biology
Immune cell map reveals origin of subcellular response to microbes, researchers report
The first line of defense in our immune systems are white blood cells, 40% to 70% of which are neutrophils....
Pheromones influence death feigning behavior in beetles
Predation is a driving force in the evolution of anti-predator strategies, and death feigning, characterized by immobility in response to...
New study uncovers potential treatment for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
A breakthrough study, jointly led by Professor Jang Hyun Choi and Professor Sung Ho Park from the Department of Biological...
Insights into early snake evolution through brain analysis
Recent study sheds new light on the enigmatic early evolution of snakes by examining an unexpected source: their brains. The...
Did animal evolution begin with a predatory lifestyle?
Were the first animals predators or filter feeders like the sponges living in today’s oceans? And what role did symbiosis...
Order from a border
What do the crowd at a football stadium, the feet of a centipede, and the inside of your lungs have...
Why are killer whales harassing and killing porpoises without eating them?
For decades, fish-eating killer whales in the Pacific Northwest have been observed harassing and even killing porpoises without consuming them—a...
Exciting news: 11 more journals indexed in CABI
Maximum Academic Press (MAP) is pleased to announce that 11 more journals including Circular Agricultural Systems, Food Innovation and Advances, Food Materials Research, Fruit Research, Grass...
A few essential genetic differences tailor flowers to bee or hummingbird pollinators
Large differences in flower characteristics between wildflowers with different pollinators are achieved by a few key genetic differences, according to...
A turtle time capsule: DNA found in ancient shell
Currently, only seven species of sea turtles exist. Among them are two in the genus Lepidochelys: the olive ridley and the...
Ireland-Uganda partnership awarded €1 million funding to tackle sepsis in babies
Maynooth University in Ireland in partnership with Makerere University in Uganda has been awarded €1 million under a Sustainable Development...
Watch how hammerhead sharks get their hammer
For weeks, you’d be hard pressed to tell if the rapidly growing animal was going to become a chicken, a...
Researchers create first-ever map of a single animal’s early visual system
Neuroscientists at the Flatiron Institute in New York City and their colleagues have made a big breakthrough using one of...
Garumbatitian: A new giant dinosaur in the Lower Cretacic of the Iberian Peninsula
New study describes a new sauropod dinosaur that lived in the Iberian Peninsula 122 million years ago. This new species...
Biological particles play crucial role in Arctic cloud ice formation
An international team of scientists from Sweden, Norway, Japan, and Switzerland, has presented research findings that reveal a crucial role...
Polyps as pixels: innovative technique maps biochemistry of coral reefs
Using an innovative new approach to sampling corals, researchers at the University of Hawai‘i (UH) at Mānoa are now able...
Insilico Medicine discovers novel dual targets for aging and disease using Microsoft BioGPT
As the cornerstone of popular chatbots including GPT-4, large language models (LLMs) trained on vast amounts of text data have...
Protecting lands slows biodiversity loss among vertebrates by five times
Protecting large swaths of Earth’s land can help stem the tide of biodiversity loss—including for vertebrates like amphibians, reptiles, mammals...
Tiny CRISPR tool could help shred viruses
HOUSTON – (Sept. 27, 2023) Small and precise: These are the ideal characteristics for CRISPR systems, the Nobel-prize winning technology used...
Golden Goose Award announces 2023 awardees for discoveries in DNA sequencing technique, a bacteria-inspired method that saves crops and chicken pedigree lines
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Golden Goose Award, which celebrates federally funded research that sounds silly, but ultimately benefits society, has...
