Tag: Biology

Credit: Tohoku University Adaptive radiation - the rapid evolution of many new species from a single ancestor - is a ...

Native milkweed cultivars planted by the public can support monarch butterflies and bees

Credit: Jim Hudgins, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Plant cultivars are natural variants of native plants that have been deliberately ...

Grant awarded to study how plants affect microbiomes

Credit: Logan Wallace For centuries, scientists have worked above ground, studying plants and their effect on biodiversity. Lying below the ...

The world’s first successful identification and characterization of in vivo senescent cells

Credit: ©Makoto Nakanishi Cell senescence is a state of permanent cell cycle arrest that was initially defined for cells grown ...

Amniotic fluid may yield new, better treatment for ischemic stroke

Credit: AlphaMed Press Durham, NC - A study released today in STEM CELLS Translational Medicine points the way to a ...

Molecular mechanism of cross-species transmission of primate lentiviruses

Principle of lentiviral cross-species transmission leading to the emergence of the AIDS virusCredit: Kei Sato Humans are exposed continuously to ...

Study finds ‘missing link’ in the evolutionary history of carbon-fixing protein rubisco

Researchers identify a unique version of a photosynthetic enzyme that has been in use for billions of yearsCredit: Henrique Pereira/Berkeley ...

Risk of human-to-wildlife transmission of the COVID-19 virus

Credit: Image credit: Sophie Gryseels There's considerable risk that humans transmit SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, to wildlife, according ...

NOAA grant advances UToledo research into Lake Erie bacteria that destroys algal toxins

Project is aimed at developing new technologies to ensure clean drinking waterCredit: The University of Toledo Searching for new ways ...

A timeline on the evolution of reptiles

New study by a team of Harvard-led researchers rebuts 75-year-old belief in reptile evolutionCredit: Tiago R. Simões Challenging a 75-year-old ...

Evolution of the Y chromosome in great apes deciphered

Researchers reconstruct the ancestral great ape Y and show its rapid evolution in bonobo and chimpanzeeCredit: Dani Zemba and Monika ...

Pesticides and food scarcity dramatically reduce wild bee population

Study finds 57% drop in reproduction when exposed to both threatsCredit: Clara Stuligross/UC Davis The loss of flowering plants and ...

Gladstone investigator receives NIH Director’s New Innovator Award

Seth Shipman is recognized for his exceptionally creative research approachCredit: Credit: Gladstone Institutes SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- The National Institutes ...

The plant hormone auxin may promote disease by regulating virulence gene expression

Credit: APS Scientists have long known that the plant hormone auxin controls many aspects of plant growth, development, and responses ...

UMD biologist awarded $ 1.5 million to develop brain mapping techniques

NIH's High-Risk, High-Reward Research Program will fund a project that could transform efforts to understand how neurons are wired.Credit: Courtesy ...

Breaking the coupling process

Credit: Illustration: Gerhard Stock, Steffen Wolf Proteins transduce information and signals within the human body by changes in their structures. ...

New techniques probe vital and elusive proteins

Credit: Graphic by Jason Drees for the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University The number of proteins in the human ...

Birds risk starvation trying to “keep pace” with climate change

30-year data set shows that birds are breeding earlier, at a costCredit: David Winkler Surviving on a warming planet can ...

Nearing a treatment for farsightedness

UH professor developing new technology to detect lens elasticityCredit: University of Houston A University of Houston biomedical researcher is developing ...

RTL1 gene a likely culprit behind temple and Kagami-Ogata syndromes