Some people are easily addicted to drugs, but others do not
Discovery of a molecular mechanism that causes individual differences in drug addictionCredit: @ Korea Brain Research Institute Korea Brain Research ...
Tag: Biology
When determining sex, exceptions are the rule
Credit: Jacelyn Shu / Genome Biology and Evolution For nearly a century, biologists have modeled the evolution of sex chromosomes--the ...
An important new tool for developing COVID-19 treatments, vaccines
Credit: Marcin Minor Biomedical scientists working with COVID-19 have a new tool to help them better understand the virus and ...
A better model for neutrophil-related diseases
Credit: Etienne Meylan, EPFL As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread, researchers are turning their attention to the virus' biology, ...
Gene found that causes eyes to wither in cavefish
University of Maryland-led study identified the first gene responsible for eye loss in cavefish, revealing connection to a human vascular ...
Process behind the organ-specific elimination of chromosomes in plants unveiled
Credit: Dr. Alevtina Ruban/ IPK Whilst we often think of somatic cells in an organism as containing the same DNA ...
Report on New Caledonia’s coral reefs offers a glimmer of hope for the future
Scientists on the Global Reef Expedition surveyed and mapped New Caledonia's most remote coral reefs--some for the first timeCredit: © ...
Loggerhead sea turtles host diverse community of miniature organisms
Credit: Matthew Ware / Florida State University There is a world of life on the backs of loggerhead sea turtles, ...
Conserving biodiverse ‘slow lanes’ in a rapidly changing world
UMass Amherst ecologist and team synthesize climate change refugia science developments to dateCredit: UMass Amherst/Toni Lyn Morelli The notion of ...
New biosensor visualizes stress in living plant cells in real time
Nanosensor allows unprecedented access to explore mechanisms related to droughtCredit: Schroeder Lab, UC San Diego Plant biologists have long sought ...
Mice are shrinking, but are climate change and cities to blame?
Credit: Bryan McLean GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- According to a well-studied but controversial principle known as Bergmann's Rule, species tend to ...
Squid studies suggest new route to therapy for ALS, targeting synaptic dysfunction
Credit: Daniel Cojanu WOODS HOLE, Mass. -- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is one of the most devastating adult-onset neurodegenerative diseases. ...
With CPRIT funding, UTA cancer researcher establishes new lab
Dr. Ghose arrived at UTA with established track record in programmed cell death researchCredit: The University of Texas at Arlington ...
Ten years of ecosystem services matrix: Review of a (r)evolution
Credit: Pensoft In recent years, the concept of Ecosystem Services (ES): the benefits people obtain from ecosystems, such as pollination ...
Developing a digital holography-based multimodal imaging system to visualize living cells
Credit: Kobe University A research group led by Kobe University's Professor MATOBA Osamu (Organization for Advanced and Integrated Research) has ...
FloChiP, a new tool optimizing gene-regulation studies
Credit: Ricardo Dainese (EPFL) In the cell, proteins often interact directly with DNA to regulate and influence the expression of ...
How the coronavirus could be prevented from invading a host cell
UC Riverside-led study shows inhibiting two host cell proteases could help prevent COVID-19Credit: Carrie Rosema. RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- How might ...
HIV-1 viral cores enter the nucleus collectively through the nuclear endocytosis-like pathway
Credit: ©Science China Press It is widely acknowledged that the process of HIV-1 infecting cells undergoes the following steps: membrane ...
CeMM study reveals how a master regulator of gene transcription operates
The human Mediator complex is selectively required for cell-type-specifying transcriptionCredit: Martin Jäger / CeMM Georg Winter's lab at CeMM uses ...
Pensoft to publish the paleontology and geobiology journal Zitteliana on behalf of SNSB
Credit: Senckenberg, SNSB and Pensoft Following the recent contract between the State Natural History Collection of Bavaria (Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen ...
