Biology
Calling all canines: Help sniff out the dangerous spotted lanternfly
From New York to North Carolina and as far west as Illinois, the invasive spotted lanternfly is causing chaos in...
Genomes from 240 mammal species explain human disease risks
Why is it that certain mammals have an exceptional sense of smell, some hibernate, and yet others, including humans, are...
Genomes from 240 mammalian species reveal what makes the human genome unique
ADDITIONAL PHOTOS AVAILABLE AT: http://broad.io/zoonomiaphotosCredit: Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard ADDITIONAL PHOTOS AVAILABLE AT: http://broad.io/zoonomiaphotos Over the past 100 million years,...
Pulling the plug on viral infections: CRISPR isn’t just about cutting
CRISPR claimed scientific fame for its ability to quickly and accurately edit genes. But, at the core, CRISPR systems are...
Male California sea lions are becoming bigger and better fighters as their population rebounds
California sea lions have managed to maintain—and, in the case of males, increase—their average body size as their population grows...
Elephant ecosystems in decline
More than 3 million square kilometers of the Asian elephant’s historic habitat range has been lost in just three centuries,...
Bioinformatics specialists in Saarbrücken explore the molecular mechanisms of ageing
A team led by bioinformatics experts Andreas Keller and Fabian Kern from Saarland University together with researchers at Stanford University...
German researchers figure out how lager first developed in Bavaria
A new paper in FEMS Yeast Research, published by Oxford University Press, reveals the possible origin story of lager beers....
Roadmap to fair AI: revealing biases in AI models for medical imaging
Artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) technologies are constantly finding new applications across several disciplines. Medicine is no exception, with...
ERK activity is a molecular switch between tissue regeneration and scarring
Why do some animals regenerate lost tissues after injury while others don’t? Researchers from the lab of Kerstin Bartscherer (Osnabrück...
Brain aging expert Ashley Webb, Ph.D. joins faculty at Buck Institute for Research on Aging
The Buck Institute for Research on Aging announces that Ashley Webb, PhD, will join its faculty as an associate professor...
Prehistoric poo reveals ‘waves’ of extinction in Colombia
Fungal spores found in dung have revealed that large animals went extinct in two “waves” in the Colombian Andes.Credit: J....
From oral structure to molecular evidence: new insights into the evolutionary phylogeny of the ciliate order Sessilida (Protista, Ciliophora), with the establishment of two new families and new contributions to the poorly studied family Vaginicolidae
This study is led by Dr. Ying Yan (Institute of Evolution & Marine Biodiversity, Ocean University of China). Ciliated protists...
Diverse landscapes help insects cope with heat stress
Leipzig/Jena/Bad Lauchstädt. Global warming is affecting terrestrial insects in multiple ways. In response to increasingly frequent heat extremes, they have...
Speaking a tonal language could boost your melodic ability, but at the cost of rhythm
Your native language could impact your musical ability. A global study that compared the melodic and rhythmic abilities of almost...
BioOne presents 2023 BioOne Ambassador Award to five early career scientists
WASHINGTON, D.C., April 25, 2023 – BioOne proudly announces the 2023 recipients of the BioOne Ambassador Award. Now in its sixth...
Relatives discovered: Membrane proteins of cyanobacteria and higher organisms are structurally highly similar
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Study identifies a new building block in the navigation system of fish; boundary vector cells in central telencephalon of goldfish enable unique encoding of position, documented here for the first time in the largest group of vertebrates
Study identifies a new building block in the navigation system of fish; boundary vector cells in central telencephalon of goldfish...
UNC Charlotte faculty member receives NASA Exobiology grant
For the first time in the University of North Carolina at Charlotte’s nearly 80-year history, a faculty member has won...
Horses living in groups are better at following human indications than horses living in individual paddocks
A new study shows that horses living in big enclosures and in groups of at least three horses are better...
