Tag: Biology

Credit: Photo courtesy of Christine Cincotta and The Ramirez Lab In the United States alone, over 14 million adults suffer ...

Two K-State studies focus on SARS-CoV-2 transmission in domestic cats, pigs

Credit: Kansas State University MANHATTAN, KANSAS -- Two recently published studies from Kansas State University researchers and collaborators have led ...

Researchers recognize a viral protein’s M.O. by just 3% of its size

Or name that tune in three notesCredit: Maria Sokolova et al, Pavel Odinev / Skoltech Skoltech researchers and their colleagues ...

For neural research, wireless chip shines light on the brain

Credit: Yaoyao Jia, NC State University Researchers have developed a chip that is powered wirelessly and can be surgically implanted ...

Study finds health trade-offs for wildlife as urbanization expands

Research on tree swallows suggests city living may offer advantages, but not without risksCredit: Joseph Corra, Ohio State University COLUMBUS, ...

Super-resolution “street view” microscopy hits the SPOT

Advanced microscopy technique opens up inner working of cellsCredit: From Nature Communications Karl Zhanghao et al 2020 (doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19747-0) The ability ...

Study reveals how smoking worsens COVID-19 infection in the airways

Credit: UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center/Cell Stem Cell UCLA researchers using a model of airway tissue created from human ...

Drug discovery: First highly scalable method to monitor protein levels and localizations

Credit: © Andreas Reicher / CeMM Until now, scientists typically studied the changes of proteins and their roles in the ...

COVID-19 highlights risks of wildlife trade

International research team including Göttingen University makes urgent call for more effective wildlife trade legislationCredit: Kit Magellan Many diseases, such ...

Microbial remedies target chemical threats in the environment

Credit: The Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University Across America, hazardous waste sites pose an ongoing threat to human and ...

Engineered C. glutamicum strain capable of producing high-level glutaric acid from glucose

An engineered C. glutamicum strain that can produce the world's highest titer of glutaric acid was developed by employing systems ...

Tropical peatland conservation could protect humans from new diseases

Credit: Suzanne Turnock / Borneo Nature Foundation Conservation of tropical peatlands could reduce the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and ...

Scientists map and forecast apex predator populations at unprecedented scale

Credit: Staffan Widstrand Photography Where the wild things are: Scientists map and forecast apex predator populations at unprecedented scale. Researchers ...

Does the human brain resemble the Universe?

Credit: University of Bologna In their paper published in Frontiers of Physics, Franco Vazza (astrophysicist at the University of Bologna) ...

Parasite infection discovery could assist mental health treatments

Credit: plos.org New research into how a common parasite infection alters human behaviour could help development of treatments for schizophrenia ...

Bezos Earth Fund donates $30 million to Salk Institute for innovative climate change research

Salk's Harnessing Plants Initiative is enhancing plants to capture and store more carbon to offset climate changeCredit: Salk Institute LA ...

Cellular powerplant recycles waste gases

Surprising structural differences discovered in enzyme that controls the conversion of carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide in bacteriaCredit: Max Planck ...

Scientists discover new mechanism controlling brain size

Credit: Assist. Prof. Canan Doganli, University of Copenhagen Under the leadership of Professor Lars Allan Larsen and Professor Søren Tvorup ...

The first detection of marine fish DNA in sediment sequences going back 300 years

Can sedimentary DNA technology track the long-term dynamics of macro-organism species?Credit: Michinobu Kuwae, CMES, Ehime University Long-term variability in the ...

Reversal of glial scar tissue back to neuronal tissue through neuroregenerative gene therapy