Size of connections between nerve cells determines their signaling strength
Credit: Kristian Herrera and authors The neocortex is the part of the brain that humans use to process sensory impressions, ...
Tag: Bioinformatics
Antibiotic resistance may spread even more easily than expected
Credit: Jan Zrimec/Chalmers University of Technology Pathogenic bacteria in humans are developing resistance to antibiotics much faster than expected. Now, ...
Appreciating a flower’s texture, color, and shape leads to better drone landings
Credit: MAVLab/ TU Delft If you ever saw a honeybee hopping elegantly from flower to flower or avoiding you as ...
Genetic rewiring behind spectacular evolutionary explosion in East Africa
Credit: Dr Graham Etherington and Dr Tarang Mehta, Earlham Institue (EI) Genetic rewiring could have driven an evolutionary explosion in ...
Proposing a new drug to treat tuberculosis utilizing state-of-the-art computer simulations
In silico drug design for inhibiting the cell division of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and suppressing its growth based on high-precision molecular ...
New computational tool reliably differentiates between cancer and normal cells from single-cell RNA-sequencing data
CopyKAT enables researchers to gain new insights when analyzing solid tumor samplesCredit: MD Anderson Cancer Center HOUSTON — In an ...
Simulating evolution to understand a hidden switch
Credit: © 2021 KAUST; Anastasia Serin Computer simulations of cells evolving over tens of thousands of generations reveal why some ...
WSU scientists identify contents of ancient Maya drug containers
Credit: WSU PULLMAN, Wash. - Scientists have identified the presence of a non-tobacco plant in ancient Maya drug containers for ...
The regulatory network of sugar and organic acid in watermelon fruit is revealed
Credit: Zhengzhou Fruit Research Institute Recently, the innovation project watermelon and melon cultivation and physiology team of Zhengzhou Fruit Research ...
A highly sensitive technique for measuring the state of a cytoskeleton
Credit: Associate Professor Takumi Higaki A research group from Kumamoto University, Japan has developed a highly sensitive technique to quantitatively ...
Stats on HIV among men who have sex with men could help resolve China’s epidemic
In China's decades-long war against HIV, the time has come to explore infections among young men who have sex with ...
A niche for the eye
Credit: Image courtesy Ting Xie Lab KANSAS CITY, MO--What if the degenerative eye conditions that lead to glaucoma, corneal dystrophy, ...
The cancer microbiome reveals which bacteria live in tumors
Researchers clean up data to identify the bugs betterCredit: Anders Dohlman, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. -- Biomedical engineers at Duke ...
Inferring human genomes at a fraction of the cost promises to boost biomedical research
Credit: Delaneau Group Thousands of genetic markers have already been robustly associated with complex human traits, such as Alzheimer's disease, ...