Tag: Biology

Credit: (C) iStock A collaborative study led by Monash University's Biomedicine Discovery Institute and the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Research Institute ...

Reprogramming brain cells enables flexible decision-making

Credit: Frank Brüderli; Universität Zürich Humans, like other animals, have the ability to constantly adapt to new situations. Researchers at ...

Climate crisis ages fish, amphibians and reptiles

Credit: Adeline Marcos Climatic conditions are changing at an unprecedented rate, affecting mainly fish, amphibians and reptiles, ectothermic animals that ...

FAU lands $11 million from US Office of Naval Research for oceanic bioluminescence

Sensor technology will 'illuminate' the role of bioluminescence in marine organismsCredit: Alex Dolce, Florida Atlantic University From the ocean surface ...

Sunfleck use research needs appropriate experimental leaves

New light on sunfleck researchCredit: Thomas E, Marler "All the roads of learning begin in the darkness and go out ...

How a giant short-faced bear reached the California Channel Islands

Credit: Excerpted from Figure 2, from: Mychajliw et al. 2020. Biogeographic problem-solving reveals the Late Pleistocene translocation of a short-faced ...

Europe’s primary forests: What to protect? What to restore?

First international assessment of the protection state of mostly 'untouched' forests in EuropeCredit: Tzvetan Zlatanov Primary forests are forests without ...

Sanford Burnham Prebys receives $3M NIH award for drugs that restore immune response to COVID-19

Scientists will study how SARS-CoV-19 hijacks the immune system and creates a 'cytokine storm'Credit: Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute. ...

Choosing the right cover crop to protect the soil

Credit: Dennis Bowman Farmers around the world are keen to protect their most important asset: their soil. The soil supports ...

Nature: Humanity at a crossroads, UN warns in new Global Biodiversity Outlook report

Global Biodiversity Outlook 5 report outlines 8 major transitions needed to slow, then halt nature's accelerating declineCredit: Convention on Biological ...

uOttawa Ph.D. student receives Fire Researcher of the Year Award

Credit: University of Ottawa Jennifer Keir, a uOttawa PhD student and Research Associate whose research investigates firefighters' health and their ...

Fish, seaweed inspire slippery surfaces for ships

Marine vehicles can reduce friction by mimicking the way aquatic creatures secrete mucusCredit: Hyung Jin Sung WASHINGTON, September 15, 2020 ...

Multi-university effort to study the Earth’s hidden critical zone- NSF grant

Credit: Virginia Tech Look out your window or step outside and look around you. Depending on where you live, you're ...

Progress toward antiviral treatments for COVID-19

Information about the molecular shape of the viruses that cause COVID-19, SARS, and MERS reveals structural similarities that suggest possible ...

The Wnt pathway gets even more complicated

Credit: ©Batista Rocha/IMBA The Wnt signalling pathway has been studied for decades, still it holds surprises in store. Bon-Kyoung Koo, ...

Stem cells engineered to evade immune system hold promise for ‘off-the-shelf’ grafts

Credit: AlphaMed Press Durham, NC - Human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) hold promise in the field of regenerative medicine for ...

The Josep Carreras Institute identifies a marker of poor evolution in Hodgkin’s lymphoma

The marker that allows predicting which patient with Hodgkin's lymphoma will present an aggressive clinical course, and will therefore be ...

Successful improvement of the catalytic activity of photosynthetic CO2 fixing enzyme Rubisco

Credit: Credit: Modified Fig. 1A of Matsumura et al. Molecular Plant (2020). A research group consisting of Associate Professor FUKAYAMA ...

Ocean algae get ‘coup de grace’ from viruses

Viruses don't immediately kill algae but live in harmony with themCredit: MODIS, NASA; Steve Gschmeissner, Photo Researchers Inc.; Kay Bidle ...

Molecular basis underlying colorectal cancer revealed