Inflammation caused by scorpion venom should be blocked immediately, study shows
In an article published in Nature Communications, Brazilian researchers show for the first time that in severe cases of scorpion ...
Tag: Biology
CNIO participates in a study that defines the most important genes that increase breast cancer risk
The most ambitious international research ever conducted on the inheritance of breast cancer, based on the analysis of 113,000 samplesCredit: ...
As oceans warm, large fish struggle
New tool gauges impacts of warming waters on over 200 fish speciesCredit: Credit: Ludovic Lhotte Warming ocean waters could reduce ...
Early breeding reduced harmful mutations in sorghum
Credit: Nadia Shakoor ITHACA, N.Y. - When humans first domesticated maize some 9,000 years ago, those early breeding efforts led ...
California harbor porpoises rebound after coastal gillnetting stopped
Bycatch of protected marine mammals took greater toll than previously realizedCredit: Bill Keener/The Marine Mammal Center Harbor porpoises have rebounded ...
Bonobos, chimpanzees, and oxytocin
A key hormone may underlie social differences among great apesCredit: Kyoto University/Kano Lab Japan -- Despite being our two closest ...
Feral colonies provide clues for enhancing honey bee tolerance to pathogens
Credit: Katy Evans, Penn State Understanding the genetic and environmental factors that enable some feral honey bee colonies to tolerate ...
European eels – one gene pool fits all
Credit: Anders Asp, SLU European eels spawn in the subtropical Sargasso Sea but spend most of their adult life in ...
Novel effector biology research provides insights into devastating citrus greening disease
Credit: Kelley J. Clark, Zhiqian Pang, Jessica Trinh, Nian Wang, and Wenbo Ma Citrus greening disease, also known as Huanglongbing ...
A critical review of graphene quantum dots and their application in biosensors
Credit: Authors In a paper published in NANO, researchers from Hubei, China discuss the top-down and bottom-up strategies for the ...
OHIO researchers ID potential target for anti-viral drugs to battle COVID
OHIO researchers published the first structural biology analysis of a section of the COVID-19 viral RNA called the stem-loop II ...
Mechanism that produces rapid acceleration in clicking beetles identified
Credit: Virginia Tech Did you know that fleas, ants, and click beetles are capable of blazingly fast accelerations, with some ...
Balancing brain cell activity
Specialized sites within nerve cells are responsible for a rapid balancing of the amount of activity in the brain.Credit: Netherlands ...
Researchers develop a new approach to detect pancreatic cancer
Credit: ACS Pharmacol. Transl. Sci. Nov./Dec. 2020 (3, 6), © 2020 American Chemical Society A protein found commonly in human ...
Getting shapes into numbers
A mathematical framework enables accurate characterization of shapesCredit: MPI-MP, Jacqueline Nowak In nature, many things have evolved that differ in ...
Fighting respiratory virus outbreaks through ‘nano-popcorn’ sensor-based rapid detection
Researchers develop novel sensor for the improved detection of influenza A viruses, with high reproducibilityCredit: Arek Socha from Pixabay Viral ...
Fish sex organs boosted under high-CO2
Credit: Southern Seas Ecology Laborator Research from the University of Adelaide has found that some species of fish will have ...
How cells ‘eat’ their own fluid components
Credit: Nature Autophagy is a fundamental cellular process by which cells capture and degrade their own dysfunctional or superfluous components ...
On the trail of active ingredients from marine yeasts
Red yeast from deep-sea sediment shows anticancer and antibacterial propertiesCredit: L. Büdenbender, GEOMAR. 20 January 2021/Kiel. Numerous natural products are ...
Well-built muscles underlie athletic performance in birds
Size of muscle fibres predicted flight performance in the wildCredit: IMAGE CREDIT: Kristen Lalla Muscle structure and body size predict ...
