Biology
Juul Labs shares new research at the College on Problems of Drug Dependence Annual Meeting
Credit: Juul Labs San Francisco (June 22, 2020) -- As part of the Company's ongoing engagement with the public health...
Reducing the damage of a heart attack
Cardiology researchers have discovered how a key protein can help the heart regulate oxygen and blood flow and repair damageCredit:...
Females use anti-inflammatory T cells to keep their blood pressure down
Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University In the face of a multipronged front to drive blood pressure up, including...
Researchers study myxobacteria’s ability to distinguish self from non-self
Credit: Dan Wall A fundamental question in biology is how individual cells within a multicellular organism interact to coordinate diverse...
Research in land plants shows nanoplastics accumulating in tissues
UMass Amherst, Shandong University offer one of the first nanoplastics studies in land plantsCredit: UMass Amherst/Xing lab Shandong University/Yuan and...
Immune cells infiltrating tumors may play bigger cancer role than previously thought
UC San Diego researchers unravel how immune cells operate in the tissues surrounding mouse tumors, suggesting new approach for cancer...
Are protected areas effective at maintaining large carnivore populations?
Credit: Daniel Burgas-Riera A recent study, led by the University of Helsinki, used a novel combination of statistical methods and...
300-million-year-old fish resembles a sturgeon but took a different evolutionary path
Tanyrhinichthys mcallisteri recasts the notion of what it means to be a 'primitive' vertebrate, according to Penn paleontologists Lauren Sallan...
COVID-19 lockdown reveals human impact on wildlife
An international team of scientists is investigating how animals are responding to reduced levels of human activity during the Covid-19...
Hormone involved in obesity is a risk factor for sepsis
Credit: Joana Carvalho, IGC 2020 The work developed in collaboration with researchers from France, Germany and South Korea was recently...
Undergraduate student discovers 18 new species of aquatic beetle in South America
Credit: Andrew Smith LAWRENCE -- It would be striking for a seasoned entomologist with decades of fieldwork to discover such...
Parallel evolution in three-spined sticklebacks
What happens in the Eastern Pacific, stays in the Eastern PacificCredit: Petri Kuokka A group of researchers from the University...
Helping honey bees make it through winter with early cold storage
New website availableCredit: ARS-USDA TUCSON, ARIZONA, June 22, 2020--Putting honey bees into early indoor cold storage in October rather than...
Not so robust: robusta coffee more sensitive to warming than previously thought
Widely considered to better prepared for climate change than arabica coffee, a new study from Southeast Asia shows robusta coffee...
Protecting natural forest in oil palm plantations crucial for conservation
Forest conservation areas in oil palm plantations play a vital role in storing carbon and boosting rainforest biodiversity, a new...
Washing away stubborn biofilms using fungal cleaning products
Researchers from the University of Tsukuba demonstrate that a biosurfactant from yeast can dissolve stubborn biofilms and enhance the efficacy...
EMBL survey studies effects of COVID-19 pandemic on life scientists
Credit: EMBL Jan Korbel and Oliver Stegle, both group leaders at EMBL Heidelberg, have performed a survey of fellow life...
This enigmatic protein sculpts DNA to repair harmful damage
Scientists have determined how a protein called XPG binds to and reshapes damaged DNA, illuminating its role in averting genetic...
Shining light on a malignant lung cancer
A near-infrared light treatment could help manage a rare form of lung cancerCredit: Kazuhide Sato Treating a rare type of...
A new social role for echolocation in bats that hunt together
Credit: Irene Mendez Cruz Searching for food at night can be tricky. To find prey in the dark, bats use...
