How do birds get their colors?
Credit: Ismael Galvan Birds' feathers, or plumage, are some of the most strikingly variable animal characteristics that can be observed by the naked eye. The...
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$3.2M grant to The Jackson Laboratory for study of new ALS candidate gene
A new five-year federal research grant totaling $3,322,009 to The Jackson Laboratory (JAX) will fund studies of a new mouse model for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis...
New, more sensitive sensor for evaluating drug safety
Credit: Yu Liu, Penn State University A new technique for evaluating drug safety can detect stress on cells at earlier stages than conventional methods, which...
Microbot origami can capture, transport single cells
Credit: Orlin Velev, NC State University Researchers at North Carolina State University and Duke University have developed a way to assemble and pre-program tiny structures...
Recreating the wild: De-extinction, technology, and the ethics of conservation
Is extinction forever? Efforts are under way to use gene editing and other tools of biotechnology to "recreate" extinct species such as the woolly mammoth...
Tracing the path of Parkinson’s disease proteins
As neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease progress, misfolded proteins clump together in neurons, recruiting normal proteins in the cell to also misfold...
New therapeutic approaches for musculoskeletal diseases highlighted in tissue engineering
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, August 4, 2017--In a forthcoming special issue of Tissue Engineering on "Strategic Directions in Musculoskeletal Tissue...
Prior dengue or yellow fever exposure does not worsen zika infection in monkeys
Rhesus macaques previously infected with dengue or yellow fever viruses appear to be neither more nor less susceptible to severe infection with Zika virus, according...
Seasonal effects: ‘Winter foals’ are smaller than foals born in summer
Credit: Juliane Kuhl/Vetmeduni Vienna Seasonal and diurnal rhythms determine the life cycle of many animal species. In equids this is not only true for wild...
New model for bimolecular reactions in nanoreactors
Credit: HZB Nanoreactors are tiny systems which facilitate specific chemical reactions, as a catalyst does. Many are found in biological systems, such as certain proteins....
Molecular biologists discover an active role of membrane lipids in health and disease
Credit: Robert Ernst All living cells that grow and divide have a constant demand for producing new proteins and new membrane lipids. Some cells of...
Materials governed by light
Credit: Rebeca Sola. UPV/EHU Hybrid materials are those that combine components of differing origins (organic and inorganic) in order to obtain materials different from conventional...
Cell aging in lung epithelial cells
(Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health) Pulmonary fibrosis can possibly be attributed to a kind of cellular aging process, which is...
Drug safety for penguins
Credit: Thinkstock Researchers from the University's Institute of Translational Medicine have determined the most effective drug dose to help penguins in managed care fight off...
Wildlife royalties — a future for conservation?
Should people who profit from the cultural representation of wildlife pay towards conservation? That is the question asked in new research conducted by zoologists from...
