Biology
Coffee plantations limit birds’ diets
Cast your mind back to the spring of 2020, when grocery store shelves sat bare of essential items and ingredients....
Monell Center team discovers molecular basis for alkaline taste
PHILADELPHIA (March 20, 2023) – The sense of taste is among the first to come into contact with food before...
British museum specimen gives insights into Australia’s rare Night Parrot
Special cranial adaptations, including an asymmetrical ‘wonky’ skull and enlarged ears, may give the critically endangered ground-dwelling Night Parrot the...
Parasites alter likelihood of fish being caught by anglers
Angling, a type of fishing, is a popular pastime across the world, and is known to be 40,000 years old....
Hummingbirds use torpor in varying ways to survive cold temps
Hummingbirds have the fastest metabolism of any animal. The tropical hummingbirds that live in the Andes Mountains in South America...
Genomic study of ancient humans sheds light on human evolution on the Tibetan Plateau
The Tibetan Plateau, the highest and largest plateau above sea level, is one of the harshest environments settled by humans....
Miracle math determines the dynamically coordinated regulation of edge velocity by Rho GTPases
Ikoma, Japan – Rho GTPases have a crucial role in the orchestration of cell movements. Cells use Rho GTPases to...
Loss of Menin helps drive the aging process, and dietary supplement can reverse it in mice
Decline in the hypothalamic Menin may play a key role in aging, according to a new study publishing March 16th...
Fomepizole helps overcome antibiotic-resistant pneumonia in mice
Pneumococcal disease leads to over three million hospitalizations and hundreds of thousands of deaths annually. A study publishing March 16th...
Major advance in super-resolution fluorescence microscopy
Scientists led by Nobel Laureate Stefan Hell at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg have developed a...
Inside the shark nursery: The evolution of live birth in cartilaginous fish
While giving birth to live young is a trait that most people associate with mammals, this reproductive mode—also known as...
Researchers highlight nucleolar DNA damage response in fight against cancer
Cancer, which affects millions every year, requires proteins to spread through the body. In a new strategy to beat the...
How fishermen benefit from reversing evolution of cod
Leipzig. Intense fishing and overexploitation have led to evolutionary changes in fish stocks like cod, reducing both their productivity and...
Compressive stress shapes the symmetry of Arabidopsis root vascular tissue
Ikoma, Japan – The generation and maintenance of tissue boundaries are fundamental to the development of functional organs in both...
Genetics as conservation tool for endangered chimpanzees
The western chimpanzees of Guinea are threatened by mining activities. Using a novel genetic approach, UZH researchers and an international...
Humans bite back by deactivating mosquito sperm
New UC Riverside research makes it likely that proteins responsible for activating mosquito sperm can be shut down, preventing them...
CoDe tool makes vaccine development faster and more accurate
SAN ANTONIO (March 15, 2023) — A new software tool developed by Texas Biomedical Research Institute and collaborators can help...
Protected areas may not serve as ‘stepping stones’ under climate change
FORT COLLINS, Colo., March 15, 2023 — Species across the planet are shifting their ranges in response to climate change....
Mild fever helps clear infections faster, new study suggests
It may be better to let a mild fever run its course instead of automatically reaching for medication, new University...
Designing more useful bacteria
In a step forward for genetic engineering and synthetic biology, researchers have modified a strain of Escherichia coli bacteria to be immune...
