Tag: Biology

Credit: Petra Krafcikova / IOCB Prague COVID-19 has changed the lives of millions and even billions of people around the ...

Researchers discover a new and unique class of carbohydrate receptors

Credit: Kasper Røjkjær Andersen Exopolysaccharides (EPS) are surface-exposed carbohydrates that surround and protect bacteria and are involved in biofilm formation, ...

Remote islands: Stepping stones to understanding evolution

Scientists combine new scientific techniques to test old theories on how evolution occurs on remote islandsCredit: OIST For millions of ...

Plastics, pathogens and baby formula: What’s in your shellfish?

New UCI-led study finds coastal urbanization increases contamination in seafoodCredit: Michelangelo Pignani Irvine, Calif., July 30, 2020 -- The first ...

First gene knockout in a cephalopod is achieved at Marine Biological Laboratory

Credit: Karen Crawford WOODS HOLE, Mass. --A team at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) has achieved the first gene knockout ...

Peering into the secrets of phages to see how they kill bacterial superbugs

Credit: F. Coulibaly & J.M. Hardy A research collaboration involving Monash University has made an exciting discovery that may eventually ...

Rena Bizios to receive the BioMedSA Award for Innovation in Healthcare and Bioscience

Credit: UTSA Communications (July 30, 2020) -- BioMedSA, the non-profit corporation founded in 2005 to promote and grow San Antonio's ...

Are cover crops negatively impacting row crops?

Credit: Katja Koehler-Cole Winter cover crops benefit soil health and can suppress weeds in subsequent row crops but may also ...

Hot urban temperatures and tree transpiration

Credit: Photo by Josephine Baran on Unsplash Shade from urban trees has long been understood to offer respite from the ...

High time to open up ecological research

Only 1 in 4 papers shares code behind the scienceCredit: Szymek Drobniak Share the code and data behind the research ...

Bees’ buzz is more powerful for pollination, than for defence or flight

Credit: University of Stirling Buzzing by bees during flower pollination is significantly more powerful than that used for defence or ...

Sea slugs: discovering other inhabitants in the Barcelona coasts

City catalogue of opisthobranchsCredit: Miquel Pontes, VIMAR Study Group A study on marine biodiversity has identified seventy-three species of sea ...

Partnership receives $23 million NSF grant to accelerate research on glycomaterials

Credit: Virginia Tech To accelerate complex glycomaterials research in the U.S., the National Science Foundation (NSF) has committed $23 million ...

Butterfly genomics: Monarchs migrate and fly differently, but meet up and mate

A genome-wide comparison of eastern and western monarchsCredit: Jaap de Roode Each year, millions of monarch butterflies migrate across eastern ...

ENCODE3: Interpreting the human and mouse genomes

Credit: ENCODE Scientists around the world have access to a rich trove of information through the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements ...

Benefits of running first-in-human and vaccine studies in Australia – Novotech webinar

The leading Asia-Pacific biotech specialist CRO Novotech is collaborating with biotech and pharma news platform Endpoints News for a webinar about ...

Indigenous people vital for understanding environmental change

Rutgers-led research shows how local knowledge can help manage ecosystems and wildlifeCredit: Joan de la Malla Grassroots knowledge from Indigenous ...

Studying interactions between ground-nesting bees and soils

Credit: Jennifer Fedenko Many living creatures live in soil. Though their sizes range from microscopic soil microbes to larger animals ...

Using artificial intelligence to smell the roses

July 28, 2020

UC Riverside study applies machine learning to olfaction with possible vast applications in flavors and fragrancesCredit: L. Duka. RIVERSIDE, Calif. ...

Human coagulation factor XIIIa expressed in pichia pastoris as fXIIIa hemostatic agent