Tag: Biology

Credit: Morten Tange Olsen Climate changes prompt many important questions. Not least how it affects animals and plants: Do they ...

Study finds future too warm for baby sharks

Climate change causing sharks to be born smaller, undernourishedCredit: E.Moothart A new study conducted at the New England Aquarium finds ...

Like plants do: non-classical photosynthesis by earth’s inorganic semiconducting minerals

Study reveals that Earth-abundant minerals convert sunlight into chemical energy, hinting at the evolution of photosynthesis in early bacteriaCredit: Earth ...

Artificial intelligence puts focus on the life of insects

Scientists are combining artificial intelligence and advanced computer technology with biological know how to identify insects with supernatural speed.Credit: Photo ...

New promising antibodies against SARS-CoV-2

Combination of two molecules simultaneously attacks multiple sites on the surface of the virusCredit: © Volker Lannert/ University of Bonn ...

EMBO Installation Grants support eight early-career scientists to establish independent laboratories

Credit: EMBO/Igor Jukic Heidelberg, 12 January 2021- EMBO is pleased to announce the award of Installation Grants to eight scientists ...

Knowledge of cycad branching behavior improves conservation

Guam's branched cycads less vulnerable to destruction by non-native insectCredit: Montgomery Botanical Center Research on cycad trees in Colombia, Guam, ...

Master designers: Architects of the brain revealed

Credit: Kanazawa University Brain cells often cluster and grow together creating three-dimensional columns. While this pillar-like pattern of neurons is ...

FAU develops simplified COVID-19 diagnostic method to ramp up widespread testing

Rapid, reliable protocol offers distinct advantages with less labor, expertise and equipment neededCredit: Florida Atlantic University To properly monitor and ...

Climate change reduces the abundance and diversity of wild bees, study finds

Credit: Kate Anton, Penn State UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Wild bees are more affected by climate change than by disturbances ...

New humanized mouse model provides insight into immunotherapy resistance

Tumor-infiltrating mast cells are connected to immune checkpoint inhibitor resistance in melanomaCredit: The Wistar Institute PHILADELPHIA -- (Jan. 12, 2021) ...

Future too warm for baby sharks

Credit: M. Johnson New research has found as climate change causes the world's oceans to warm, baby sharks are born ...

The odd structure of ORF8: Mapping the coronavirus protein linked to disease severity

Biologists used crystallography performed at Berkeley Lab's Advanced Light Source to reveal the new virus's unusual protein structureCredit: Marilyn Sargent/Berkeley ...

Comprehensive characterization of vascular structure in plants

Biology: Key publication in The Plant CellCredit: HHU / Ji-Yun Kim The leaf vasculature of plants plays a key role ...

Levels of stress hormone in saliva of newborn deer fawns may predict mortality

Research finding suggests that stress levels may be key to fawn survivalCredit: Tess Gingery/Penn State The first-ever study of the ...

Researchers find nonnative species in Oahu play greater role in seed dispersal

Credit: Patrick Kelley University of Wyoming researchers headed a study that shows nonnative birds in Oahu, Hawaii, have taken over ...

Oncotarget: HIV +/- patients with lymphoma as a predictor of outcome & tumor proliferation

The Oncotarget author's hypothesis is that ADC values will inversely correlate with Ki-67 expression and that tumors with higher ADC ...

Ocean acidification is transforming California mussel shells

New analyses reveal how over 60 years a critical marine species has responded to ocean acidificationCredit: Roy Lab, UC San ...

A potent weapon against lymphomas

Credit: Hoepken / Rehm Labs, MDC MDC researchers have developed a new approach to CAR T-cell therapy. The team has ...

Link between driver of ovarian cancer and metabolism opens up new therapeutic strategies