Tag: Biology

Credit: Lawson Health Research Institute LONDON, ONTARIO - A new study from Lawson Health Research Institute, Western University and University ...

Langerhans cells are up to the job, they just need a chance

University of Tsukuba researchers determine the role of Langerhans cells in mucocutaneous acute graft-versus-host diseaseCredit: University of Tsukuba Tsukuba, Japan ...

Saving the climate from the ground up

International research team formulates strategy against the greenhouse effectCredit: Frank Luerweg / University of Bonn Soil has the capacity to ...

Early indications of thrombosis help in preventing postoperative complications

A paper saw light in Scientific ReportsCredit: Kazan Federal University The co-authors are employees of the Protein-Cell Interactions Lab of ...

Large tides may have driven evolution of fish towards life on land

Credit: Mattias Green/Bangor University Big tidal ranges some 400 million years ago may have initiated the evolution of bony fish ...

Gut bacteria associated with animal-based diet may mitigate risk of cardiovascular disease

Credit: Veronika Kivenson of the OSU College of Science provided this image, created with BioRender.com and published in mSystems. CORVALLIS, ...

Cauliflower coral genome sequenced

Butterfly color diversity due to female preferences

Credit: Kalle Tunström Butterflies have long captured our attention due to their amazing color diversity. But why are they so ...

Endangered trees in Guam contribute to ecosystem diversity and health

Credit: University of Guam Research at the University of Guam has shown that the decomposition of leaf litter from three ...

Cancer’s dangerous renovations to our chromosomes revealed

Credit: Courtesy Zang lab Cancer remodels the architecture of our chromosomes so the disease can take hold and spread, researchers ...

Vampire bats social distance when they get sick

Credit: Sherri and Brock Fenton/Behavioral Ecology A new paper in Behavioral Ecology, published by Oxford University Press, finds that wild ...

Impact of arbuscular mycorrhizal species on heterodera glycines

Credit: M. L. Pawlowski and G. L. Hartman Introduced to the United States over 60 years ago, soybean cyst nematode ...

High fat or ‘ketogenic’ diets could prevent, reverse heart failure

Credit: Saint Louis University ST. LOUIS - Research from Saint Louis University finds that high fat or "ketogenic" diets could ...

Can scientists take the STING out of common respiratory viruses?

Led by Stan Lemon, MD, researchers at the UNC School of Medicine and GSK colleagues discovered that the majority of ...

How to figure out what you don’t know

Credit: Mikhail Genkin/Engel lab Increasingly, biologists are turning to computational modeling to make sense of complex systems. In neuroscience, researchers ...

Modern computational tools may open a new era for fossil pollen research

Credit: Doug Peterson One of the best sources of information on the evolution of terrestrial ecosystems and plant diversity over ...

A molecular break for root growth

Length of plant roots is controlled by hormonesCredit: U. Benz / TUM Roots are essential for reaching water and nutrients, ...

Emery N. Brown wins SfN’s Swartz Prize for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience

Credit: MIT Picower Institute for Learning and Memory The Society for Neuroscience announced today that it has awarded the Swartz ...

How cells use mechanical tension sensors to interact with their environment

Credit: Laboratory of Structural Biophysics and Mechanobiology/The Rockefeller University Actin is among the most abundant proteins in cells, and it ...

The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation announces Thesis Prize winners