Tag: Biology

Credit: Per Jensen Researchers from Linköping University suggest a process by which the timid junglefowl from the rain forest could ...

Antagonistic genes modify rice plant growth

Credit: Motoyuki Ashikari Scientists at Nagoya University and colleagues in Japan have identified two antagonistic genes involved in rice plant ...

Bacteria could survive travel between Earth and Mars when forming aggregates

Tanpopo mission addresses the possibility of natural interplanetary transport of microbial life called panspermiaCredit: JAXA/NASA Imagine microscopic life-forms, such as ...

Getting to the root of the problem

Credit: James Burridge Roots play a vital role in crop plants. They take up water and nutrients for the plant ...

Coastal development, changing climate threaten sea turtle nesting habitat

Credit: Photo by Matthew Ware / Florida State University A research team led by Florida State University found that sea ...

A case for botanical gardens to lead in global plant crisis

New call for funding, advocacy for botanical gardens to lead efforts to avert plant extinctionCredit: © The Morton Arboretum LISLE, ...

New tool for identifying endangered corals could aid conservation efforts

Credit: Iliana Baums, Penn State Coral conservation efforts could get a boost from a newly developed genotyping "chip"--the first of ...

Importance of rainfall highlighted for tropical animals

Credit: Cristian Bonilla Poveda URBANA, Ill. - Imagine a tropical forest and you might conjure up tall trees hung with ...

Enzyme prisons

Credit: Charlotte Konrad, MDC There are up to a hundred different receptors on the surface of each cell in the ...

Scientists create protein models to explore toxic methylmercury formation

Credit: Connor Cooper, Oak Ridge National Laboratory/U.S. Dept. of Energy. A team led by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge ...

Effectiveness of cloth masks depends on type of covering

Credit: Padmanabha Prasanna Simha, Indian Space Research Organisation WASHINGTON, August 25, 2020 -- Months into the COVID-19 pandemic, wearing a ...

Polymers prevent potentially hazardous mist during dentist visit

During a pandemic, the problem of aerosolized saliva droplets at a dentist's office is acute. Thanks to polymer viscoelasticity, dentists ...

SciLifeLab fellows part of new Plant Biotechnology National Center

Credit: Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research The six-year-long program is part of a large-scale initiative from the SSF, aligned with ...

Study reveals two major microbial groups can’t breathe

Researchers analyze thousands of microbial genomes and discover that two abundant groups produce energy using ancient methods that may predate ...

Accumulating extra genome copies may protect fly brain cells during aging

To prevent cell death caused by DNA damage, adult brain cells in fruit flies produce extra copies of their chromosomesCredit: ...

UC researchers pinpoint hierarchy of breast cancer cells as potential cause for treatment resistance

Credit: University of Cincinnati Creative + Brand You might have heard the old proverb, "It takes a village to raise ...

New study shows evolutionary breakdown of ‘social’ chromosome in ants

Credit: Yannick Wurm & Emeline Favreau Scientists from Queen Mary University of London have found that harmful mutations accumulating in ...

Scientists catalogue shark and ray distribution in Florida lagoon

FAU Harbor Branch study is first long-term, in-depth analysis of elasmobranch community in Southern Indian River lagoonCredit: Florida Atlantic University/Florida ...

Mineral dust ingested with food leaves characteristic wear on herbivore teeth

Research results presented by paleontologists of Mainz University allow for more accurate conclusions on the nutrition and habitats of extinct ...

Plant living with only one leaf reveals fundamental genetics of plant growth