Tag: Biology

A team of neuroscientists at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology discovered a new neuronal circuit that may ...

Protecting species on the move

Credit: University of Tennessee Knoxville. As temperatures and sea levels rise as a result of climate change, flora and fauna ...

Butterfly effect can double travel of virus-laden droplets

Small pockets of virus-laden air can detach from an exhaled breath, traveling in a ballistic manner and reaching large distances ...

Human molecule blocking toxic forms of Parkinson’s-related protein identified

Credit: Irantzu Pallarès, IBB-UAB The death of neurons specialised in the synthesis of dopamine, one of the brain's main neurotransmissors, ...

Parasites manipulate praying mantis’s polarized-light perception, causing it to jump into water

Credit: Takuya Sato Researchers have revealed that praying mantis (mantids) infected with parasitic hairworms are attracted to horizontally polarized light ...

Cancer neuroscientists identify a key culprit behind pediatric brain cancer’s spread

ABAT enzyme helps medulloblastoma cells feed, according to study led by USC Brain Tumor Center and Norris Comprehensive Cancer CenterCredit: ...

Pretreating nuisance green algae with lye, urea increases bacterial production of biogas

Two simple compounds break down barriers for circular economy biofuel productionCredit: Harbin Engineering University WASHINGTON, June 29, 2021 - For ...

Air pollution from wildfires impacts ability to observe birds

Credit: Kari Greer/U.S. Forest Service As smoky air becomes more common during Washington's wildfire season, many wildlife enthusiasts wonder: What ...

Blood-based biomarkers may predict HIV remission after stopping antiretroviral therapy

The newly identified sugar and metabolic signatures may help predict duration and probability of HIV remission after antiretroviral therapy interruption ...

Oregon State graduate student sheds light on better way to study reputedly secretive toad

Credit: Anne Devan-Song CORVALLIS, Ore. - Research by a graduate student in Oregon State University's College of Science has upended ...

New study sheds light on evolution of photosynthesis

Credit: Florian Raunecker New Brunswick, N.J. (June 28, 2021) - A Rutgers-led study sheds new light on the evolution of ...

Baby reef fishes swim for gold

Credit: Katie Sambrook / ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies. A new study has found baby coral reef ...

Keck backs Rice bid to ‘build a brain’

Jacob Robinson lab analyzes connections in hydra to understand neural pathwaysCredit: Kelly Kim/Robinson Lab/Rice University HOUSTON - (June 28, 2021) ...

DNA data and modelling reveal potential spread of invasive species

Credit: Marc Rius Scientists at the University of Southampton have found that a marine invasive species - a sea squirt ...

RAMBO speeds searches on huge DNA databases

Rice method cuts indexing times from weeks to hours, search times from hours to minutesCredit: Courtesy G. Gupta/Rice University HOUSTON ...

Unusual prey: Spiders eating snakes

There are spiders that eat snakes; observations of snake-eating spiders have been reported around the world. Two researchers from Basel ...

An atlas of the bumblebee brain

Credit: Lisa Rother / University of Wuerzburg The buff-tailed bumblebee Bombus terrestris is one of the most common bumblebee species ...

New tools for pandemic prevention research: DNA sequencing from water and leech

Credit: Andrew Tilker/Leibniz-IZW In a new scientific investigation headed by the German Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (Leibniz-IZW), ...

Researchers perform metabolomic profiling of individual enlarged lysosomes

Credit: ZHU Hongying et.al The research team led by Prof. XIONG Wei and Prof. CANG Chunlei from Life Science and ...

Virome in marine ecosystems reveal remarkable invertebrate RNA virus diversity