Tag: Biology

Credit: Titan II Scientists at RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences have developed a new biomaterial that has the ...

Transient increase in blood pressure promotes some blood vessel growth

Finding has implications for combating tumor growth and diseaseCredit: Daisuke Yoshino, TUAT Blood vessels are the body's transportation system, carrying ...

Water bacteria have a green thumb

Microbiologists at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena (Germany) identify a new type of planktomycete that produces bioactive natural productsCredit: ...

Statistical analyses of plant metabolites allow solid testing of plant defense theories

High-throughput analyses of small substances in Nicotiana attenuata reveal that plants re-organize their metabolism to produce highly-specific defense metabolites after ...

Silicones may lead to cell death

Credit: Radboud University Silicone molecules from breast implants can initiate processes in human cells that lead to cell death. Researchers ...

Unlocking PNA’s superpowers for self-assembling nanostructures

Credit: College of Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a method for self-assembling nanostructures with ...

Plant cell gatekeepers’ diversity could be key to better crops

Credit: Annamaria De Rosa, CoETP Scientists have shed new light on how the network of gatekeepers that controls the traffic ...

Half the earth relatively intact from global human influence

Study presents clear opportunities to conserve what remainsCredit: Jason Riggio/UC Davis Roughly half of Earth's ice-free land remains without significant ...

Grant to support research into grape downy mildew

Credit: Kaitlin Gold, Cornell University ITHACA, N.Y. - The climate in New York state is ideal for cultivating many grape ...

Simulations reveal interplay between scent marking and disease spread

Accounting for individual animal movement could boost understanding of emerging infectious diseasesCredit: Martyn Smith, Flickr In a new mathematical model ...

The disease pyramid: Environment, pathogen, individual and microbiome

The body's own bacteria and viruses influence diseases in amphibiansCredit: Dirk Schmeller Researchers from the Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and ...

Soil biology research can help create a more sustainable future

Credit: Ru. Hartnop, from the Global Soil Biodiversity Atlas Soils are home to more than 25 percent of the earth's ...

A novel mechanism that triggers a cellular immune response

Credit: National Cancer Institute Viruses and other disease-causing microbes influence the type of immune response their hosts will develop against ...

Refugee children get better health, nutrition via e-vouchers

Credit: John Hoddinott, Cornell University ITHACA, N.Y. - Electronic food vouchers provided young Rohingya children in Bangladeshi refugee camps with ...

Dopamine signaling allows neural circuits to generate coordinated behaviors

Credit: Flavell Lab/MIT Picower Institute For a nematode worm, a big lawn of the bacteria that it eats is a ...

Researchers identify ‘hot spots’ for developing lymphatic vessels

Experiments on zebrafish: fibroblasts produce important enzyme-processing proteins triggering growth in vesselsCredit: Andreas van Impel When an embryo develops, a ...

A flight to weightlessness from Zurich-Dübendorf

Credit: UZH The fourth parabolic flight organized by the UZH Space Hub takes off today from Dübendorf airfield. A reorganization ...

A new character for Pokémon? Novel endemic dogfish shark species discovered from Japan

Credit: Sarah Viana Newly discovered creatures can often be as impressive and exciting as the ones from the Japanese movies ...

Can your gut microbes tell you how old you really are?

Credit: Insilico Highlights: In 2018 scientists from Gladyshev lab specializing in aging research started a collaboration with Insilico Medicine resulting ...

From bacteria to you: The biological reactions that sustain our rhythms