Retinal cell transplant clears experimental hurdle toward treating blindness
Credit: Su, Xinyi Retinal cells derived from adult human eye stem cells survived when transplanted into the eyes of monkeys, ...
Tag: Biology
GM plant grows insect sex pheromone compounds needed for green pest control in agriculture
GM plant to give boost to green insect controlsCredit: Kurt Miller Photography RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- The camelina plant, a source ...
Micro-climate moulds and reshapes northern insect communities, herbivory and predation
Credit: Tuomas Kankaanpaa Climate and changes in it have direct impacts on species of plant and animals - but climate ...
Scientists are a step closer to developing ‘smart’ stem cells – made from human fat
These new, adaptive stem cells can lie dormant until needed, a new animal study using human cells shows.Credit: Unsplash A ...
Expanding the biosynthetic pathway via retrobiosynthesis
Researchers reports a new strategy for the microbial production of multiple short-chain primary amines via retrobiosynthesisCredit: KAIST KAIST metabolic engineers ...
Penned release of green geckos has potential to help preserve threatened native species
Credit: Tom Flynn-Plummer University of Otago researchers have added another piece to the puzzle about how best to translocate New ...
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 ...
New algorithm mimics electrosensing in fish
Credit: Figure courtesy of Lorenzo Baldassari and Andrea Scapin. While humans may struggle to navigate a murky, turbid underwater environment, ...
Bees respond to wildfire aftermath by producing more female offspring
Credit: Jim Rivers, OSU College of Forestry CORVALLIS, Ore. - Researchers at Oregon State University have found that the blue ...
Honeybees reveal how our floral landscape has changed over the last 65 years
Honeybees have been helping researchers from the National Botanic Garden of Wales track how the UK's fields, hedgerows, wild spaces ...
Chemotherapy with light; only one injection required
Chemotherapy with only one injection, repeated phototherapy, and no side effects. Development of a cancer-targeted single component supramolecular peptide phototherapeutic ...
How the brain paralyzes you while you sleep
Researchers at the University of Tsukuba in Japan have discovered a group of neurons in the mouse brainstem that suppress ...
Pulsed ultraviolet light technology to improve egg safety, help poultry industry
Novel decontamination method can be used with both table and hatching eggsCredit: Penn State Pulsed ultraviolet light can be an ...
Shedding light on the secret reproductive lives of honey bees
Credit: Photo by Alison McAfee. Honey bee health has been on the decline for two decades, with U.S. and Canadian ...
Resilience to climate change?
New study finds octopuses adapting to higher ocean acid levelsCredit: Kirt L. Onthank With the impact of climate change increasing ...
Scientists discover new ‘spectacular’ bat from West Africa
Credit: © Bat Conservation International A group of scientists led by the American Museum of Natural History and Bat Conservation ...
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 ...
Examining therapeutic targets for kidney disease
University of Houston researcher tackles proteins found in diseaseCredit: University of Houston Among the primary forms of kidney disease, focal ...
New insights into the control of inflammation
The EGR1 transcription factor has distinct roles in early and late macrophage maturation stages, blunting macrophage activation and inflammation.Credit: The ...
Rare quadruple-helix DNA found in living human cells with glowing probes
Credit: Imperial College London New probes allow scientists to see four-stranded DNA interacting with molecules inside living human cells, unravelling ...
