Biology

May 21, 2026

UTA civil engineer studying threats to industry, environment posed by severe flooding

Investigating economic, environmental impacts of natural disastersCredit: UT Arlington A University of Texas at Arlington civil engineer is determining how...

University of Minnesota Sea Grant director John A. Downing named 2019 AAAS Fellow

Credit: UMN Duluth/Brett Groehler DULUTH, Minn. -- The University of Minnesota Sea Grant program is proud to announce that Director...

Fire ants’ raft building skills react as fluid forces change

Scientists explore how fire ants build rafts to adapt in a very wet environmentCredit: Hungtang Ko SEATTLE, November 26, 2019...

Nuclear reactors with a newly proposed barrier could’ve withstood Chernobyl and Fukushima

Credit: Country of Rosatom In the aftermath of the notorious accidents in the history of nuclear energy at Three Mile...

Hops compounds help with metabolic syndrome while reducing microbiome diversity

Credit: (Photo courtesy of Oregon State University) CORVALLIS, Ore. - Compounds from hops may combat metabolic syndrome by changing the...

Under the lens: Link between macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa

University of Houston research team examines eye disease with $2.5 million awardCredit: University of Houston Four words you never want...

Fish size affects snake river salmon returns more than route through dams

Research suggests juvenile bypass systems do not affect later ocean survivalCredit: Ritchie Graves/NOAA Fisheries The survival and eventual return of...

A monkey’s balancing act

How species in the wild are managing the risks and rewards of sharing space with humansCredit: University of Lincoln The...

Professors Kam Leong and Elisa Konofagou Win $3.2 million NIH award to advance genome editing

A team led by biomedical engineer Kam Leong has been awarded $3.2 million by the National Institutes of Health (NIH)...

Study tracks genomic changes that reinforce darter speciation

Credit: Photo by Lance Merry CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- When they share habitat, orangethroat and rainbow darters tend to avoid one...

Aquatic microorganisms offer important window on the history of life

The graphic shows a tree of life for complex forms known as Eukaryotes, that arose mysteriously around 1.2-2 billions years...

A study compares how water is managed in Spain, California and Australia

Credit: Universidad de Córdoba Turning on the faucet and having water come out has become such a common daily occurrence...

Ammonia synthesis made easy with 2D catalyst

Rice University scientists develop inorganic process for small-scale productionCredit: Lou Group/Rice University HOUSTON - (Nov. 25, 2019) - Rice University...

Intestinal stem cell genes may link dietary fat and colon cancer

Rutgers study suggests tie between stem cell behavior and a high fat dietCredit: Lei Chen Two genes that appear to...

A new world map rates food sustainability for countries across the globe

A global food system sustainability study builds the first map of its kind to score the sustainability of food systems,...

Using artificial intelligence to determine whether immunotherapy is working

November 23, 2019

Researchers use AI with routine CT scans to predict how well lung cancer patients will respond to expensive treatment based...

Bacteria-infecting viruses bind mucosal surface and protect from disease

Credit: Credit: Gabriel Almeida/University of Jyväskylä Mucosal surfaces protect organisms from external stressors and disease. Bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria,...

Interaction with fungus containing N2-fixing endobacteria improves rice nitrogen nutrition

Nitrogen nutrition improved in rice by interaction with rhodotorula mucilaginosa and its N2-fixing endobacteriaCredit: Karnelia Paul, Mayurakshi Nag, and Anindita...

DNA repeats — the genome’s dark matter

First direct analysis of pathogenic sequence repeats in the human genomeCredit: MPI f. Molecular Genetics/ Pay Gießelmann Expansions of DNA...

Scientists find a place on Earth where there is no life