Biology
Forget-me-not: Scientists pinpoint memory mechanism in plants
Plant scientists at the Universities of Birmingham and Nottingham have unravelled a mechanism that enables flowering plants to sense and...
Droughts boost emissions as hydropower dries up
Credit: Paul Hames/California Department of Water Resources When hydropower runs low in a drought, western states tend to ramp up...
More young and other traits help mammals adapt to urban environments
Species of mammals that live in urban environments produce more young compared to other mammals. But next to this common...
Bird migration and conservation clues in robin and Turtle dove genomes
The European robin and Turtle dove have had their genetic codes sequenced and assembled for the first time The European...
Elegant trick improves single-cell RNA sequencing
ITHACA, N.Y. - Droplet microfluidics has revolutionized single-cell RNA sequencing, offering a low-cost, high-throughput method for single-cell genomics. However, this...
Cancer can run but it can't hide
CHLA researcher awarded $1.2 million to study drug resistance in leukemiaCredit: Dr. Yong-Mi Kim, MD, PhD, MPA at CHLA Actually,...
Synthetic biology goes to SPAAAAAAACE!
Experiment sends engineered plants to International Space StationCredit: Mathew Crawley/University of Utah College of Science If humanity is going to...
Health checkups for alpine lakes
University of Alberta biologists show that zooplankton are excellent bioindicators for mountain lakes in North AmericaCredit: Charlie Loewen The best...
Scientists uncover how protein clumps damage cells in Parkinson's
Enzymes modify tau to create tau-alpha-synuclein clumps on mitochondriaCredit: Courtesy Scripps Research JUPITER, FL - Biologists studying Parkinson's disease have...
Researchers make world's smallest tic-tac-toe game board with DNA
The technology could be used to develop more sophisticated nanomachines with reconfigurable partsCredit: Qian Lab/Caltech Move over Mona Lisa, here...
For gait transitions, stability often trumps energy savings
Test results from mammals and birds emphasize risk reductionCredit: Caleb Bryce from the Botswana Predator Conservation Trust A dog's gait,...
AIDS — an approach for targeting HIV reservoirs
Credit: © Institut Pasteur / Nicolas Huot Current HIV treatments need to be taken for life by those infected as...
The idiosyncratic mammalian diversification after extinction of the dinosaurs
Researchers state that many mammals lineages coexisted with the dinosaurs before the end-Cretaceous mass extinction. Although many species of mammals...
Enzyme's unfrozen adventure: In crystallo protein thermodynamics
Researchers from Osaka University report using non-cryocooled crystals to determine conformational changes and thermodynamic properties in copper amine oxidase catalysisCredit:...
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