Tag: Biology

July 6, 2020

Credit: Susan Daniel/Cornell University Researchers have developed a human cell 'membrane on a chip' that allows continuous monitoring of how ...

‘Fang’tastic: researchers report amphibians with snake-like dental glands

Utah State University and Butantan Institute scientists publish evolutionary findings in 'iScience.'Credit: Butantan Institute, Brazil LOGAN, UTAH, USA - Utah ...

First evidence of snake-like venom glands found in amphibians

Credit: Carlos Jared Caecilians are limbless amphibians that, to the untrained eye, can be easily mistaken for snakes. Though caecilians ...

Getting a grasp on India’s malaria burden

A method that involves infecting liver cells with mosquito-bred parasites could improve the study of malaria in IndiaCredit: Mindy Takamiya/Kyoto ...

More ecosystem engineers create stability, preventing extinctions

Credit: Justin Yeakel When we think of engineering in nature, we tend to think of beavers -- the tree-felling, dam-building ...

Does DNA in the water tell us how many fish are there?

Credit: Reiji Masuda River water, lake water, and seawater contain DNA belonging to organisms such as animals and plants. Ecologists ...

Grassroots dog vaccinations can help stop rabies, but not alone

Rabies is preventable. Inequality has kept it a threat.Credit: © Ravi Ruparel. In the US, dying from rabies is virtually ...

Anaplasmosis bacterium tinkers with tick’s gene expression to spread to new hosts

Discovery points to new vaccine target for protection against tick-borne diseasesCredit: Erik Karits, Pixabay For the first time, scientists have ...

Why are the offspring of older mothers less fit to live long and prosper?

Credit: Michael Shribak, Evgeny Ivashkin, Kristin Gribble WOODS HOLE, Mass. - The offspring of older mothers don't fare as well ...

How the body fights off urinary tract infections

Credit: Gregor Weiss / ETH Zurich Anyone who has ever had cystitis knows that urinary tract infections of this kind ...

How a mutation on the novel coronavirus has come to dominate the globe

A small variation has made the novel coronavirus fitter--but not more deadlyCredit: La Jolla Institute for Immunology LA JOLLA--Flashback to ...

Moss protein corrects genetic defects of other plants

Study by the University of Bonn could contribute to the development of more efficient cropsCredit: © Bastian Oldenkott/Uni Bonn Almost ...

New technique in which drugs make bacteria glow could help fight antibiotic resistance

Credit: Dr Stefano Pagliara, University of Exeter New technique in which drugs make bacteria glow could help fight antibiotic resistance ...

How that preprint about a ‘more contagious strain’ of coronavirus changed in peer review

Credit: Korber et al. / Cell On May 5, 2020, news broke about a reportedly more contagious variant of SARS-CoV-2--the ...

A scientific measure of dog years

Credit: Ideker Lab, UC San Diego How old is your tail-wagging bundle of joy in human years? According to the ...

Marine alga from the Kiel Fjord discovered as a remedy against infections and skin cancer

GEOMAR research group successfully applies bioinformatics methods and machine learning in marine drug discoveryCredit: Larissa Büdenbender Healing with the help ...

Algae as living biocatalysts for a green industry

Credit: RUB, Marquard Better still: living algae can be used as biocatalysts for certain substances, and they bring the co-substrate ...

A novel sperm selection technology to increase success rates of in vitro fertilization

LEFT: Mouse sperm collected by a conventional cell sorter. Motility cannot be maintained and sperm cannot advance. Motile sperm are ...

New candidate for raw material synthesis through gene transfer

"Natural gene transfer" into a multicellular cyanobacterium: Phormidium lacuna lends itself to fun-damental research and biotechnical applicationsCredit: Photo: Amadeus Bramsiepe, ...

The protein that stands between us and autoimmunity