The National Academy of Sciences admits IPK scientist Nicolaus von Wirén as member
Credit: IPK/ Andreas Bähring "When I received the news about my election by the members of the Leopoldina, I was ...
Tag: Biology
Topology in biology
Credit: Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization When can we say that a certain property of a system is ...
Brain-repair discovery could lead to new epilepsy treatments
Credit: Dan Addison | UVA Communications University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers have discovered a previously unknown repair process ...
Southeastern US herbaria digitize three million specimens, now freely available online
Credit: Photo courtesy of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Herbarium A network of over 100 herbaria spread out across ...
Early-life social connections influence gene expression, stress resilience
Credit: Kay E. Holekamp Having friends may not only be good for the health of your social life, but also ...
Cattle losing adaptations to environment, MU researchers find
Researchers pave the way for genetic tests of cattle that can look for the presence of specific adaptations, such as ...
Less-sensitive COVID-19 tests may still achieve optimal results if enough people tested
Analysis suggests same epidemiological outcomes possible with rapid-antigen versus RT-PCR testsCredit: Philip Cherian, Sandeep Krishna and Gautam Menon, 2021, PLOS ...
Stanford researchers develop tool to drastically speed up the study of enzymes
Credit: Daniel Mokhtari For much of human history, animals and plants were perceived to follow a different set of rules ...
Mentoring and inclusion are top priority for 50 new Gilliam Fellows and their advisers
Credit: HHMI They come from 38 schools across the country. Their research spans the life sciences, from plant biology to ...
Characterized drugs show unexpected effects
Known and yet unexpected: many active substances influence the cholesterol homeostasis and thereby possibly a SARS-CoV-2 infectionCredit: MPI of Molecular ...
New insight on the reproductive evolution of land plants
International consortium offers novel insight into the reproductive evolution of land plants, in new study published in Nature PlantsCredit: Mette ...
DeepMind and EMBL release the most complete database of predicted 3D structures of human proteins
Partners use AlphaFold, the AI system recognised last year as a solution to the protein structure prediction problem, to release ...
Drought changes rice root microbiome
Credit: Sundaresan lab, UC Davis Drought can have a lasting impact on the community of microbes that live in and ...
HKU scientists harness the naturally abundant CRISPR-Cas system to edit superbugs with the hope of treating infections caused by drug resistant pathogens
Credit: The University of Hong Kong A research team led by Dr Aixin YAN, Associate Professor from the Research Division ...
Linda Partridge to present at the 8th Aging Research & Drug Discovery Meeting 2021
Linda Partridge to present new research in the biology of aging at the world's largest aging research for drug discovery ...
Largest-ever type 1 diabetes genetic study IDs potential treatment targets
Credit: UVA Health Scientists have completed the largest and most diverse genetic study of type 1 diabetes ever undertaken, identifying ...
Targeted removals and enhanced monitoring can help manage lionfish in the Mediterranean
Credit: Periklis Kleitou/University of Plymouth Targeted removals can be effective in suppressing the number of invasive lionfish found within protected ...
How does the structure of cytolysins influence their activity?
Credit: Jillian Nickel Although Enterococcus faecalis is usually an innocuous member of the bacterial community in the human gut, it ...
The gene’s-eye view of evolution
New book reviews the history of the gene's-eye view of evolution by describing current disagreements and conceptual debates, and highlighting ...
A new model of coral reef health
Using data collected on the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation's Global Reef Expedition, scientists identify which natural and anthropogenic ...
