Biology
Randy Yeh, MD, receives SNMMI Mars Shot Fund award
Reston, Virginia—The SNMMI Mars Shot Research Fund is excited to announce that Randy Yeh, MD, a radiologist and nuclear medicine...
Two brain mechanisms for picking speech out of a crowd
Researchers led by Dr. Nima Mesgarani at Columbia University, US, report that the brain treats speech in a crowded room...
Why are dog breeds with innate diseases popular?
Flat-faced dogs, such as French and English Bulldogs, are extremely popular despite suffering from severe innate diseases. Hungarian researchers have...
Noninvasive modulation of brain hemodynamic and metabolic states by near-infrared light
The human brain is a dominant site for energy metabolism in the body. The intrinsic contraction and relaxation of the...
Julia Mahamid receives EMBO Gold Medal 2023
6 June 2023 – EMBO announces that structural biologist Julia Mahamid is the recipient of this year’s EMBO Gold Medal....
A compound from fruit flies could lead to new antibiotics
Scientists at the University of Illinois Chicago have found that a peptide from fruit flies could lead to new antibiotics. Credit:...
Identification of a misssing archaeal subunit of KEOPS complex supports the archaeal origin of Eukaryotes theory
KEOPS is composed of Pcc1, Kae1, Bud32, Cgi121, and the eukaryotes-specific fifth subunit Gon7, and functions in N6-threonylcarbamoyl adenosine (t6A)...
Electrical synapses in the neural network of insects found to have unexpected role in controlling flight power
A team of experimental neurobiologists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and theoretical biologists at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin has managed...
Bombardier vs. assassin: Mimetic interactions via a shared enemy
Animals can defend themselves against their natural enemies in various ways. Well-defended species often share conspicuous body colors with other...
The other side of the story: How evolution impacts the environment
KINGSTON, R.I. — June 5, 2023 — The story of the peppered moths is a textbook evolutionary tale. As coal...
African BioGenome Project (AfricaBP) Open Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics Workshop 2023
WHAT IS IT ABOUTCredit: AfricaBP Open Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics and Southern Africa workshop partners and sponsors WHAT IS...
Weather anomalies are keeping insects active longer
As Earth’s climate continues to warm due to the emission of greenhouse gasses, extreme and anomalous weather events are becoming...
Scientists expand understanding of limb evolution in earliest birds
The assembly of the volant bird body plan from the ancestral bulky dinosaurian condition is an enduring topic of evolutionary...
Plants allocate enough carbon to underground mycorrhizal fungi equivalent to roughly one-third of carbon emitted yearly by fossil fuels
Mycorrhizal fungi have been supporting life on land for at least 450 million years by helping to supply plants with...
BRAIN LOGISTICS: Missing link explains mRNA delivery in brain cells
Faraway, so close!Credit: Schuhmacher et al. (2023) / MPI-CBG Faraway, so close! “These publications provide a major advancement to elucidate...
Genomes of 233 primate species sequenced
Researchers from 24 countries have analyzed the genomes of 809 individuals from 233 primate species, generating the most complete catalog...
New grasshopper species from central Texas honor Willie Nelson and Jerry Jeff Walker
The central region of Texas is a known hotspot of biological wonders. For the last five years, Dr. JoVonn Hill,...
Ancient viruses discovered in coral symbionts’ DNA
HOUSTON – (June 1, 2023) – An international team of marine biologists has discovered the remnants of ancient RNA viruses...
Bremen researchers cultivate archaea that break down crude oil in novel ways
Microbial communities are especially active near hydrothermal seeps like those in the Guaymas Basin in the Gulf of California. The...
Biologists to create ‘toolbox’ for understanding complex genetic traits
Driven by a lifelong curiosity about the natural world and the diversity of life, Elizabeth King, associate professor in the...
