Tag: Biology

Credit: POSTECH The year 2020 can be summarized simply by one word - COVID-19 - as it was the culprit ...

Cyanobacteria as “green” catalysts in biotechnology

Cyanobacteria are environmentally friendly and readily available biocatalysts for the production of new chemicals and, thanks to researchers at TU ...

Method used to track Ebola’s trajectory being applied to COVID-19

Credit: University of South Florida What exactly happened in Asia that caused SARS-CoV-2 to rapidly spread across the region and ...

A tale of two cesspits: DNA reveals intestinal health in Medieval Europe and Middle East

New research proves the feasibility of retrieving bacterial DNA from ancient latrinesCredit: Uldis Kal?jis A new study published this week ...

Horwitz Prize awarded to scientists who showed how the ear and brain process sound

Credit: Columbia University Irving Medical Center Columbia University will award the 2020 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize to three scientists: Robert ...

Veterinary college receives $3.5 million NIH grant to develop Lyme disease vaccine

Credit: Virginia Tech Renowned tick immunobiologist Utpal Pal wants to ad apt the rabies vaccination platform to produce antibodies that ...

Solving global challenges using insect research

Credit: © IRD - Olivier Dangles - François Nowicki / Une Autre Terre To achieve food security, to promote peace, ...

Hidden DNA fragment the ‘trigger switch’ for male development

Biology textbooks may need to be re-written, with scientists finding a new piece of DNA essential to forming male sex ...

Tweaks to land-based conservation efforts would pay huge freshwater ecosystem dividends

Credit: Rede Amazo?nia Sustanta?vel (6) CORVALLIS, Ore. - Conservation projects aimed at protecting land-dwelling species could net major gains in ...

A factor limiting recovery from bleaching in corals

Credit: NIBB Increases in seawater temperature can cause coral bleaching through the loss of symbiotic algae. Corals can recover from ...

Searching for the chemistry of life

Study shows possible new way to create DNA base pairsCredit: Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Tomislav Stolar In the search for the ...

Woodpeckers’ drumming: Conserved meaning despite different structure over the years

Credit: (Picture: Alain Blanc, ENES team) Animal acoustic signals are amazingly diverse. Researchers from the University of Zurich and the ...

Vaccine ingredients could be hiding in small molecule libraries

Scientists have found an ingredient that makes a vaccine more effective through an approach more often seen in materials science ...

Laundry lint can cause significant tissue damage within marine mussels

Credit: University of Plymouth Microscopic fibres created during the laundry cycle can cause damage to the gills, liver and DNA ...

Invasion by non-native insects expected to increase 36 percent worldwide by 2050

Europe in line for greatest biological invasion, followed by Asia and the AmericasCredit: Leah Bauer, USDA Forest Service Research by ...

Bright light bars big-eyed birds from human-altered landscapes

Credit: Ian Ausprey/Florida Museum GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- New research shows the glaring light in human-altered landscapes, such as livestock pastures ...

Researchers hear more crickets and katydids ‘singing in the suburbs’

Credit: D.J. McNeil, Penn State UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- The songs that crickets and katydids sing at night to attract ...

Venom glands similar to those of snakes are found for first time in amphibians

Brazilian researchers discover that caecilians, limbless amphibians resembling worms or snakes that emerged some 150 million years before the latter, ...

Conservation planning in Amazon should prioritize aquatic biodiversity, study concludes

Simulations using field data suggest focusing on the protection of species that live in rivers and lakes can be more ...

Study reveals element in blood is part of human–and hibernating squirrel–stress response