Raymond Stevens to receive 2019 BPS Anatrace Membrane Protein Award
ROCKVILLE, MD - The Biophysical Society (BPS) has named Raymond Stevens, Provost Professor and Director of the Bridge Institute, Department of Biological Sciences and Chemistry,...
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Elizabeth Rhoades to receive 2019 BPS Michael and Kate Barany Award
ROCKVILLE, MD - The Biophysical Society (BPS) has named Elizabeth Rhoades, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, as its 2019 Michael and Kate...
UMass Amherst biophysicist, cell biologist team up to explore mechanics of cell division
Credit: UMass Amherst/Patricia Wadsworth AMHERST, Mass. - When humans construct a building, it's intended to stand for many years, but in biological systems, cells routinely...
DNA repair after CRISPR cutting not at all what people thought
Despite high hopes and high investment in CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing, scientists still have a lot to learn about how it works in humans. In the...
Largest king penguin colony has shrunk nearly 90 percent
Credit: © Henry Weimerskirch Known since the 1960s, the colony of king penguins (Aptenodytes patagonicus) on Île aux Cochons, in the southern Indian Ocean, had...
Microfluidic system incorporates neuroinflammation into ‘Alzheimer’s in a dish’ model
Credit: Joseph Park, Ph.D., Doo Yeon Kim, Ph.D., Rudolph E. Tanzi, Ph.D., and Hansang Cho, Ph.D.; Genetics and Aging Research Unit, MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative...
Cannabidiol prevents nausea in rats
Credit: Limebeer et al., eNeuro (2018) A non-psychoactive compound derived from marijuana could potentially be developed into new anti-nausea treatments for cancer patients receiving chemotherapy,...
Research on mutation ‘hotspots’ in DNA could lead to new insights on cancer risks
Credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- New research from Indiana University has identified "hotspots" in DNA where the risk for...
Homo sapiens developed a new ecological niche that separated it from other hominins
Credit: Roberts and Stewart. 2018. Defining the 'generalist specialist' niche for Pleistocene Homo sapiens. Nature Human Behaviour. 10.1038/s41562-018-0394-4. Critical review of growing ar..
New process in root development discovered
Credit: IST Austria/Ivan Kulik As the plant root grows, a root cap protects its fragile tip. Every few hours, the old cap is lost and...
Do bacteria ever go extinct? New research says yes, bigtime
Credit: Stilianos Louca, University of British Columbia. Bacteria go extinct at substantial rates, although appear to avoid the mass extinctions that have hit larger forms...
An increase in Southern Ocean upwelling may explain the Holocene CO2 rise
Credit: Anja Studer; Max Planck Institute for Chemistry Human populations and civilization expanded rapidly over the last 10 000 years, known as the Holocene epoch....
Carbon ‘leak’ may have warmed the planet for 11,000 years, encouraging human civilization
Credit: Anja Studer, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry The oceans are the planet's most important depository for atmospheric carbon dioxide on time scales of decades...
Samara Polytech scientists developed a unique wine recipe
Credit: @SamaraPolytech The founder of the legendary Spanish winery, senor Torres, taught his children: "The best wine is made at home." If scientists get down...
Great tit birds have as much impulse control as chimpanzees
Biologists at Lund University in Sweden have in a recent study shown that the great tit, a common European songbird, has a tremendous capacity for...
