How Magnesium Shaped Early Life From Prebiotic Geochemistry to Modern Cell Biology
A comprehensive scientific review traces how magnesium progressed from an abiotic geochemical catalyst in prebiotic synthesis to an indispensable structural ...
Tag: Biology
Landmark Review Details Quantum Biology Evolution Across Multiscale Living Systems
A comprehensive review by Howard University researchers synthesizes nearly 600 studies to establish a multiscale framework for quantum phenomena in ...
Review links mitochondrial dysfunction to inter-organellar aging network
A 2026 mechanistic review links mitochondrial dysfunction with oxidative damage, altered NAD+-dependent signaling and disturbed communication among organelles during aging.
Dual-colour glow turns autoluminescent plants into quantitative gene reporters
A red-shifted fungal luciferase paired with a green reporter lets researchers measure gene activity in glowing plants by colour ratio ...
Research report: Beware of scientific scams! Hints to avoid predatory publishing in biological journals
Researchers warn that predatory journals, books and meetings are proliferating in biology, and they offer practical tools to help scientists ...
Integrated taxonomy, biology and biogeography of the Afrotropical genus Xyloctonus (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Scolytinae)
Deep in the forests of Africa and Madagascar lives a group of beetles so strange that early entomologists debated whether ...
Rare alpine bee revealed as a threefold specialist living inside a giant plant
Deep in the eastern Swiss Alps, a bee so rare that scientists recorded it just six times in nearly ninety ...
Time as an indispensable causal dimension in cardiovascular diseases: toward a four-dimensional biology
Heart failure does not begin when a cardiologist makes the diagnosis. By the time an ejection fraction falls below 40 ...
When a Paper No Longer Means Science: Biology’s reckoning With AI-Generated Research
A PLOS Biology perspective argues that generative AI has severed the link between writing a scientific paper and doing real ...
Quantum biology and ultraweak photon emission: an overlooked intersection?
A new Perspective article argues that ultraweak photon emission, long dismissed as a metabolic by-product, may intersect with quantum biology ...
Himalayan worm-eating snake finally reveals its females, eggs and hidden skull secrets
Deep in the subtropical montane forests of Zhangmu Town, on the southern slopes of China's Xizang Autonomous Region near the ...
Juicy past of favorite Okinawan fruit revealed
Credit: Hidekazu Sumi Citrus fruits from the mandarin family have important commercial value but how their diversity arose has been ...
New study sheds light on function of sex chromosomes in turtles
Credit: Nicole Valenzuela AMES, Iowa - A new study led by an Iowa State University scientist sheds light on how ...
Sharks, lies, and videotape: Scientists document problems with Shark Week
Credit: Marion Kraschl, CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons MEADVILLE, PA - July 22, 2021 - Shark Week is ...
‘Feel good’ brain messenger can be willfully controlled, new study reveals
Neuroscientists show that mice can learn to manipulate random dopamine impulses for rewardCredit: Julia Kuhl From the thrill of hearing ...
UMass Amherst grad student awarded fellowship for food allergy research
USDA program focuses on developing next generation of food scientistsCredit: UMass Amherst University of Massachusetts Amherst food science Ph.D. candidate ...
“Noisy” gene expression may help improve stem cell therapies
Gladstone researchers discover fundamental mechanism that appears to speed the change of stem cells into other cell typesCredit: Photo: Michael ...
How the brain paints the beauty of a landscape
Researchers investigate how our brains proceed from merely seeing a landscape to feeling its aesthetic impactCredit: MPI for Empirical Aesthetics ...
Blushing plants reveal when fungi are growing in their roots
Credit: Temur Yunusov and Alfonso Timoneda Almost all crop plants form associations with a particular type of fungi - called ...
Scientists identify five new plant species in Bolivia
Credit: John Wood Scientists have identified five new plant species in the Bolivian Andes. The species are all part of ...
