Tag: Biology

Credit: Photo: Elie Gaget Climate change pushes species distribution areas northward. However, the expansion of species ranges is not self-evident ...

Cognitive elements of language have existed for 40 million years

Credit: National Center for Chimpanzee Care in Bastrop, Texas Humans are not the only beings that can identify rules in ...

How do snakes ‘see’ in the dark? Researchers have an answer

New insights explain how snakes convert infrared radiation into electrical signalsCredit: University of Houston Certain species of snake - think ...

At our cores, we’re all strengthened by ‘dumbbells’

Rice University scientists ID structures of protein-encoding DNACredit: Illustration by Ryan Cheng/CTBP HOUSTON - (Oct. 21, 2020) - How life ...

Diagnosing Parkinson’s disease with skin samples could lead to earlier detection

Credit: Iowa State University News Service AMES, Iowa - New research shows a simple skin test can accurately identify Parkinson's ...

It’s all about the right balance

Credit: © Anna Liess During cell division specific target proteins have to be turned over in a precisely regulated manner. ...

Legacy pollutants found in migratory terns in Great Lakes region

A study concludes that PCBs, PBDEs and metabolites of DDT threaten the terns throughout their lives, from the moment they ...

Transcription factors may inadvertently lock in DNA mistakes

Binding to mismatched DNA takes less energy; may explain how regulatory mutations get locked inCredit: Maria Schumacher, Duke University DURHAM, ...

Study finds go-to hormone for cycad propagation ineffective

Credit: University of Guam The newly published thesis research of University of Guam Master of Environmental Science graduate Benjamin Deloso ...

Cancer-linked enzyme mechanism newly characterized in study

New research on previously undescribed biochemical process could contribute to broader quest toward more-targeted cancer therapiesCredit: Image courtesy Matthew Bochman ...

Why can our brains learn and memorize?

Comprehensive understanding of expression mechanism of long-term potentiation and long-term depression of hippocampal excitatory synaptic strengthCredit: COPYRIGHT (C) TOYOHASHI UNIVERSITY ...

Animal-based research: New experimental design for an improved reproducibility

New study published in Scientific ReportsCredit: WWU - Department of Behavioural Biology In research, the results of studies must be ...

The consequences of mating at the molecular level

Researchers from the University of Tsukuba identify a novel mechanism by which mating affects the behavior of germline stem cellsCredit: ...

Salk’s Dannielle Engle awarded over $1 million to study tobacco use on pancreatic cancer

Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--(October 21, 2020) Salk Institute Assistant Professor Dannielle Engle has been awarded a New Investigator Award ...

New drug that can prevent the drug resistance and adverse effects

Activated in cancer cells to simultaneously release a drug-resistance inhibitor and anticancer drug; anticipating the development of a new non-toxic ...

Innovation spins spider web architecture into 3D imaging technology

Credit: Sena Huh/Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Purdue University innovators are taking cues from nature to develop 3D photodetectors ...

Repairing the photosynthetic enzyme Rubisco

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry decipher the molecular mechanism of Rubisco ActivaseCredit: Manajit Hayer-Hartl /MPI of Biochemistry ...

Light pollution may increase biting behavior at night in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes

Credit: University of Notre Dame Artificial light abnormally increases mosquito biting behavior at night in a species that typically prefers ...

A CNIO team describes how a virus can cause diabetes

Credit: CNIO It has recently been described that infection by some enteroviruses - a genus of viruses that commonly cause ...

Targeting the shell of the Ebola virus