New type of photosynthesis discovered
Credit: Dennis Nuernberg The discovery changes our understanding of the basic mechanism of photosynthesis and should rewrite the textbooks. It will also tailor the way...
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Elevated androgens don’t hinder dads’ parenting — at least not in lemurs
Credit: Velontsara Jeanne Baptiste Studies have shown that when men marry and have children, they often see a decline in their androgen levels - or...
Synthetic biologists get $1.7 million to engineer world’s strongest biomaterial
It's the most durable biological material you've never heard of: sporopollenin. This naturally occurring polymer coats and protects individual grains of plant pollen, and it's...
Parents ranked cancer prevention as number one provider reason for HPV vaccination
CHAPEL HILL - Parents ranked cancer prevention as the most compelling reason health care providers can give for recommending the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, according...
Pew selects 22 scientists to investigate fundamental biomedical questions
PHILADELPHIA-- The Pew Charitable Trusts named 22 early-career researchers today as the 2018 class of Pew scholars in the biomedical sciences. The scholars will receive...
3D imaging and computer modeling capture breast duct development
Credit: Andrew Ewald Working with hundreds of time-lapse videos of mouse tissue, a team of biologists joined up with civil engineers to create what is...
5 new Pew-Stewart Scholars to pursue innovative cancer research
PHILADELPHIA--The Pew Charitable Trusts and the Alexander and Margaret Stewart Trust announced today the 2018 class of Pew-Stewart Scholars for Cancer Research. The five independent,...
Microbe breaks ‘universal’ DNA rule by using two different translations
Credit: Max-Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen DNA is often referred to as the blueprint for life, however scientists have for the first time discovered...
Scientists have captured the elusive cell that can regenerate an entire flatworm
Credit: Sánchez Alvarado Lab Kansas City, MO. -- Researchers at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research have captured the one cell that is capable of...
Study identifies key challenges when communicating potential policies
A team of Cambridge researchers sets out to define a new science for policy communications, with ambitions of finding the "Goldilocks zone" between too much...
Researchers pinpoint new subtype of prostate cancer
Credit: Alexander Tokarev, Ella Maru Studio ANN ARBOR, Michigan -- Researchers led by the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center have identified a new subtype...
Minimalist biostructures designed to create nanomaterials
Credit: IBB-UAB Researchers of the Institute of Biotechnology and Biomedicine (IBB-UAB) have achieved to generate 4 peptides -molecules smaller than proteins - capable of self-assembling...
Without ‘yoga and chardonnay’ leukemia stem cells are stressed to death
Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center Change is stressful. The change that a healthy blood stem cell undergoes to become a leukemia stem cell (LSC)...
Plazi and BLR receive EUR 1.1 million from Arcadia Fund to open up new biodiversity data
Credit: Plazi Plazi has received a grant of EUR 1.1 million from Arcadia - the charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin - to...
Proteins as a ‘shuttle service’ for targeted administration of medication
Medication that reaches the spot where it's needed without placing strain on the rest of the body is no longer a vision of the future....
