Biology
New stem cell mechanism in your gut
Your gut is a wondrous place. A special layer of cells that coats the insides of your small and large...
Tiny gene fragments revealed as crucial new players in retinal development and vision
Researchers at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona reveal that Srrm3 is a master regulator gene crucial for...
Widely-used kidney function tests underestimate scale of kidney disease in Africa
The findings suggest that methods developed in high-income settings to check kidney function are not accurate for many people in...
A world afire: Social–ecological processes in a time of change
In an era of ubiquitous human entanglement with the natural world, scientists are turning to social–ecological systems approaches as a...
Turning white blood cells into medicinal microrobots with light
Medicinal microrobots could help physicians better treat and prevent diseases. But most of these devices are made with synthetic materials...
Rats can learn to navigate by watching their friends, helping us learn more about our own ‘internal GPS’
Researchers are one step closer to understanding the ‘internal GPS’ of animals and humans, by investigating whether rats can learn...
Protein folding in times of oxygen deficiency
Proteins often consist of hundreds or thousands of individual parts, the amino acids. These are connected like the links of...
Have Antillean manatees crossed the Panama Canal?
In the mid-sixties, almost 50 years after the creation of the artificial Gatun Lake for the operations of the Panama...
Habitat shifts affect brain structure in Amazonian butterflies, according to study
Habitat differences help determine changes in the nervous system of tropical butterflies, scientists at the University of Bristol have found.Credit:...
A look inside ancient fish heads
The evolution of the brain and nervous system in animals has been wound back more than 400 million years, thanks...
A machine learning model to predict immunotherapy response in cancer patients
Immunotherapy is a new cancer treatment that activates the body’s immune system to fight against cancer cells without using chemotherapy...
Entombed together: Rare fossil flower and parasitic wasp make for amber artwork
CORVALLIS, Ore. – Oregon State University fossil research has revealed an exquisite merger of art and science: a long-stemmed flower...
UTSW researchers show effectiveness of migraine drug in weight loss
Triptans, a commonly prescribed class of migraine drugs, may also be useful in treating obesity, a new study by scientists...
The best offense is a great defense for some carnivorous plants
LA JOLLA–– (July 11, 2022) Insect-eating plants have fascinated biologists for more than a century, but how plants evolved the...
Plankton will store more carbon as Earth’s climate warms – but storage beyond the end of the century is uncertain
The amount of carbon stored by microscopic plankton will increase in the coming century, predict researchers at the University of...
Sperm are masters of Tetris packing
If you are moaning once again about your suitcase being far too small as your vacation approaches, you should take...
How preschoolers’ brains develop self-control
As their brain regions linked to self-control mature, preschoolers improve in their ability to stop themselves from doing something, according...
Proof that Mendel discovered the laws of inheritance decades ahead of his time
Gregor Mendel, the Moravian monk, was indeed “decades ahead of his time and truly deserves the title of ‘founder of...
Kessler Foundation scientist explores biomarker to improve dual diagnosis of traumatic spinal cord and brain injury
East Hanover, NJ – July 11, 2022 – Silvana Costa, PhD, of Kessler Foundation received a two-year $199,800 grant from...
Influential barriers
It’s important to be well organized. And this is especially true for the genome – the entirety of an organism’s...
