Tag: Biology

Credit: Christian Kiffner The effects of human presence on the social relationships of wild animals have rarely been studied. Even ...

Feeding habits differ by age and sex in Asian black bears: Data may help wildlife experts better manage bears’ habitats

Credit: Hiroshi Yokota A ten-year study shows that Asian black bears' diets vary greatly depending on sex, stage of life, ...

Re-trafficking proteins to fight Salmonella infections

Credit: Joel Selkrig/EMBL When humans get infected by pathogenic bacteria, the body's immune system tries to eliminate the intruders. One ...

Nature’s ‘slow lanes’ offer hope for species feeling heat of climate change

Credit: Photo by Garrett Meigs, OSU College of Forestry CORVALLIS, Ore. - Pockets of landscape less prone than adjacent areas ...

National survey shows different bacteria on cell phones and shoes

Microbes mostly harmless, include groups barely known to scienceCredit: Kristen Vincent, https://www.facebook.com/kristenvincentphotography The largest study of its kind in the ...

Artificial intelligence enhances brain tumour diagnosis

A highly accurate machine learning tool could help doctors tailor individualized treatments for people with glioma brain tumoursCredit: Mindy Takamiya/Kyoto ...

Scientists lament ‘Humpty Dumpty’ effect on world’s spectacular, rare wildlife

'We can't always put things back together again,' researchers sayCredit: Joel Berger/ Colorado State University Some of the world's largest, ...

Milkweed, only food source for monarch caterpillars, ubiquitously contaminated

Harmful pesticides found in Western Monarch breeding groundCredit: Photo by Angela Laws, Xerces Society. RENO, Nev. - New evidence identifies ...

You are what you eat is as important for fish as it is for people

Credit: Brian Hunt/ UBC There is truth in the saying "you are what you eat"; even more so if you ...

New books present the PhyloCode, an evolution-based system for naming organisms

Credit: CRC Press GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Move over, Linnaeus: There's a new way of naming organisms. Scientists have formalized an ...

Researchers shed light on new enzymatic reaction

CABBI scientists at Illinois develop environmentally efficient process for compound synthesis with ties to pharmaceutical and bioenergy fieldsCredit: CABBI Communications ...

Better detection of a type of ovarian cancer could lead to better treatments

Credit: RCSI Scientists have found that a specific type of ovarian cancer could possibly benefit from existing platinum-based chemotherapy and ...

Threats to global food security from emerging fungal crop pathogens

Credit: University of Exeter Amongst the world's most challenging problems is the need to feed an ever-growing global population sustainably. ...

Many factors may contribute to steep, decades-long muskrat population drop

Credit: Penn State Muskrat populations declined sharply across North America over the last 50 years or so, and wildlife scientists ...

New light for plants

Scientists: Use of glass-ceramics in greenhouse lamps will facilitate plants' growthCredit: Anastasiia Babkina Many may have seen bright pink light ...

Unravelling complex brain networks with automated 3D neural mapping

Automated 3D brain imaging data analysis technology offers more reliable and standardized analysis of the spatial organization of complex neural ...

‘Social distancing’ saves frogs: New approach to identify individual frogs noninvasively

Credit: Naitik Patel Globally, 41% amphibian species are regarded as threatened with extinction. However, when it comes to the case ...

Discovery of important molecular mechanism of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease