Rutgers scientists identify protein that may have existed when life began
Credit: Vikas Nanda/Rutgers University-New Brunswick How did life arise on Earth? Rutgers researchers have found among the first and perhaps only hard evidence that simple...
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Faster than we thought: sulfurization of organic material
About 94 million years ago, something happened that led to an unusually high amount of organic material being preserved in oceans around the world. The...
Mechanism of Marburg virus sexual transmission identified in nonhuman primates
Credit: William Discher, U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases Research published today by a team of Army scientists sheds light on the mechanism...
Children’s bone cancers could remain hidden for years before diagnosis
Scientists have discovered that some childhood bone cancers start growing years before they are currently diagnosed. Researchers at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and Hospital for...
UMD’s Juntti awarded grant to design tools linking gene changes to traits in cichlid fish
Credit: John T. Consoli Scott Juntti, the William J. Higgins Assistant Professor of Biology at the University of Maryland, received one of 11 new awards,...
Mapping trees can help count endangered lemurs
Credit: Photo by David Haring, Duke Lemur Center DURHAM, N.C. -- The vast majority of lemur species are on the edge of extinction, experts warn....
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Credit: Benjamin Wang '20, Lehigh University Suppose you're a farmer cultivating crops in a major river basin. You rely on water from the river to...
Predicting how splicing errors impact disease risk
Credit: CSHL Dept of Public Affairs Cold Spring Harbor, NY - No one knows how many times in a day, or even an hour, the...
Drug-resistance of gonorrhoea in the EU: persistent but stable
Credit: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control/ECDC Neisseria gonorrhoea continues to show high levels of resistance to azithromycin across the European Union and European...
Aspen is making a comeback in and around Yellowstone National Park, because of predators
CORVALLIS, Ore. - The reintroduction of wolves into Yellowstone National Park is tied to the recovery of aspen in areas around the park, according to...
Adapt, move or die: how biodiversity reacted to past climate change
Credit: Egle Kudirkiene A new paper reviews current knowledge on climate change and biodiversity. In the past, plants and animals reacted to environmental changes by...
Bird behavior: Biologist finds new, more accurate way of monitoring bird populations
EDMONTON (August 29, 2018)--A new method of monitoring bird populations uses the power of statistics to produce more accurate estimates of bird abundance, according to...
Heritability explains fast-learning chicks
(Linköping University) Both genetic and environmental factors explain cognitive traits, shows a new study carried out on red junglefowl. Researchers at Linköping University in Sweden...
An international team led by the CNIO reveals that human genome could contain up to 20 percent fewer genes
A new study led by the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) reveals that up to 20% of genes classified as coding (those that produce...
UTA biochemists study enzymes to provide keys for drug development
Credit: UTA UTA biochemists are mapping the function of specific enzymes which may facilitate development of new drugs to fight bacterial infection, cancer and potentially...
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