Moths’ flight data helps drones navigate complex environments
Study uses real insect flight trajectories to develop decision-making program for autonomous vehiclesCredit: Thomas Daniel lab, University of Washington, Seattle. ...
Tag: Bioinformatics
Persistence of gut microbial strains in twins, living apart after cohabitating for decades
A genomics tool can determine whether twins maintained identical gut strains, even after living apart for years.Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. ...
Drones effective tools for fruit farmers
Credit: Olga Walsh People have used the phrase "drone on and on" for a long time. Webster's dictionary defines this ...
LD Motif Finder locates ancient hidden protein patterns
Credit: © 2019 Rayan Naser An iterative machine learning approach has identified elusive 800 million-year-old amino acid patterns that are ...
Water lily genome expands picture of the early evolution of flowering plants
Credit: Liangsheng Zhang The newly reported genome sequence of a water lily sheds light on the early evolution of angiosperms, ...
Taking the measure of glycans
Researchers capture variability in antibodyCredit: De Leoz et al., MCP 2019 When Lorna De Leoz invited laboratories to participate in ...
First study to compare citrus varieties with combination of metabolomics and microbiome
Credit: Emily M. T. Padhi, Nilesh Maharaj, Shin-Yi Lin, Darya O. Mishchuk, Elizabeth Chin, Kris Godfrey, Elizabeth Foster, Marylou Polek, ...
Resurrected protein reveals structure of important enzyme
Credit: Fraaije lab, University of Groningen To disarm toxic substances, many organisms - including humans - possess enzymes called flavin-containing ...
The birds and the bees and the bearded dragons
Evolution of a sex-determination systemCredit: Arthur Georges, University of Canberra Sex is an ancient and widespread phenomenon, with over 99% ...
Newly developed mathematical model could be used to predict cancer drug side effects
Credit: Kobe University A research team at Kobe University Hospital have further illuminated the likelihood of cancer drug side effects ...
Empowering European structural biology
The EU grants 10 million euro to the iNEXT-Discovery consortium, in which EMBL is a major partner, unlocking key technologies ...
Solving a combinatorial quandary
New funding from NIH will help Lehigh University computer science and engineering professor Brian Chen develop software that can identify ...
Filtered coffee helps prevent type 2 diabetes, show biomarkers in blood samples
Credit: Yen Strandqvist, Chalmers University of Technology Coffee can help reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes - but ...
The Digital Cell
Cell Biology as a Data ScienceCredit: Image courtesy of Anne Straube, University of Warwick Cold Spring Harbor, NY -- Cold ...
Combination of chemo and diabetes drugs shows potential for treating Ewing sarcoma
Credit: Houston Methodist Ewing sarcoma, an aggressive tumor that commonly affects bones in adolescents and young adults, is diagnosed in ...
Free tool simplifies cancer research
Credit: Ulf Sirborn Every cell contains a vast number of proteins, each of which has a specific function, for example ...
Standard pathology tests outperform molecular subtyping in bladder cancer
Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University While trying to develop a comparatively easy, inexpensive way to give physicians and ...
Strengthening European biology
EMBL joins Instruct-ERICCredit: PHOTO: Udo Ringeisen / EMBL European biomedical research capabilities, and services to industry, will be further enhanced ...
Climate cycles and insect pests drive migration timing of reindeer’s North American cousin
In the largest-ever caribou study a University of Maryland-led team disputes long-held assumptions about migration timing and suggests warming summers ...
Tiny insects become ‘visible’ to bats when they swarm
3-D simulations could provide new insights into the evolution of bat echolocationCredit: Mor Taub. Small insects that would normally be ...
