Research reveals fishing pressures affect tropical and temperate reefs differentl
Credit: Elizabeth Madin, University of Hawai'i In a study published recently in Ecology and Evolution, an international team of researchers ...
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Researchers look for answers as to why western bumblebees are declining
Credit: Christy Bell A University of Wyoming researcher and her Ph.D. student have spent the last three years studying the ...
Osmotic stress identified as stimulator of cellular waste disposal
Credit: Tania Lopez-Hernandez Cellular waste disposal, where autophagy and lysosomes interact, performs elementary functions, such as degrading damaged protein molecules, ...
Princeton’s Nieng Yan tackles long-standing mysteries about membrane protein structure
Making moves with cryo-EMCredit: Photo courtesy of Nieng Yan Ion channels and membrane transporters are in the business of moving ...
Team dramatically reduces image analysis times using deep learning, other approaches
Credit: Harshad Vishwasrao and Damian Dalle Nogare, NIH WOODS HOLE, Mass. - A picture is worth a thousand words -but ...
Microbiome confers resistance to cholera
Not everyone exposed to infectious diarrhea-causing bacteria gets sickCredit: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Cholera can kill within hours ...
Even in the worst COVID-19 cases, the body launches immune cells to fight back
International collaboration provides important piece of COVID-19 puzzleCredit: La Jolla Institute for Immunology LA JOLLA--A new study from researchers at ...
Historic floods reveal how salt marshes can save lives in the future
Credit: Edwin Paree YERSEKE (THE NETHERLANDS), 29 JUNE 2020 - Coastal wetlands like salt marshes are increasingly recognized as valuable ...
The state of coral reefs in the Solomon Islands
The Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation releases their latest findings from the largest coral reef survey and mapping expedition ...
Bleaching affects aquarium corals, too
Credit: Ciemon Caballes. A new study illustrates the potential impact of recurrent heatwaves on coral species collected by the Australian ...
Plasticity may make neurons vulnerable to Alzheimer’s disease
Neurons that regularly remodel are more prone to the dysfunctions linked to the disease's onset, a new experimental and computational ...
New evidence for how blood clots may form in very ill COVID-19 patients
Credit: Xue-Yan He and David Ng, Egeblad Lab/CSHL, 2020 Scientists have new evidence that overactive neutrophils--a common type of circulating ...
New research reveals plant control with the power of light
Credit: Leonie-Alexa Koch, Institute of Synthetic Biology, University of Düsseldorf. University of East Anglia scientists have helped find a way ...
Existing drugs can prevent SARS-CoV-2 from hijacking cells
Researchers evaluate how the new coronavirus rewires human proteins for its own replication, and identify several antiviral drugs ready for ...
Anammox bacteria generate energy from wastewater while taking a breath
Credit: © 2020 KAUST A type of anaerobic bacteria responsible for more than 50 percent of nitrogen loss from marine ...
New 3D model shows how the paradise tree snake uses aerial undulation to fly
The snakes which comprise the Chrysopelea family are the only known limbless vertebrates capable of flight. Scientists have known this, but ...
Newly designed ligands for a catalytic reaction to synthesize drugs and useful compounds
Scientists spur advances in the field of drug development by designing a novel strategy to generate useful compoundsCredit: Gwangju Institute ...
Human Brain Project announces new phase
Credit: Forschungszentrum Jülich The Human Brain Project (HBP) announces the start of its final phase as an EU-funded FET Flagship. ...
Scientists devise gentle technique to study heart tissue functioning
Credit: Daria Sokol/MIPT Press Office Biophysicists from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and their colleagues have proposed a ...
Casting a wider net: New system measures brain activity of several zebrafish concurrently
Novel system for simultaneously measuring brain electrical signals from multiple zebrafish opens up path to cheaper and faster drug screening ...
