Tag: Biology

May 22, 2020

Dr. Kirkland to receive Irving S. Wright Award and Dr. Curran to receive Vincent Cristofalo Rising Star Award in Aging ...

New to science newts from Vietnam with an important message for Biodiversity Day 2020

May 22, 2020

Credit: Cuong The Pham In time for the International Day for Biological Diversity 2020, the date (22 May) set by ...

CRISPR a tool for conservation, not just gene editing

Scientists use CRISPR to rapidly identify endangered delta smelt and its look-alikesCredit: Alisha Goodbla/UC Davis The gene-editing technology CRISPR has ...

Capturing the coordinated dance between electrons and nuclei in a light-excited molecule

Revealing both sides of the story in a single experiment has been a grand scientific challengeCredit: Greg Stewart/SLAC National Accelerator ...

The European viper uses cloak-and-dazzle to escape predators

Credit: The University of Jyväskylä/Janne Valkonen Research of the University of Jyväskylä demonstrate that the characteristic zig-zag pattern on a ...

MIPT biophysicists found a way to take a peek at how membrane receptors work

Credit: Daria Sokol/MIPT Press Office In a study published in Current Opinion in Structural Biology, MIPT biophysicists explained ways to ...

New model shows how cells that cause liver cancer are created

Scientists show in-vivo and in-vitro how liver cancer stem cells are born, solving a central scientific mystery in this fieldCredit: ...

Virus prevalence associated with habitat

Study of Caribbean lobsters sheds light on disease and fragile ecosystemsCredit: Charlotte Eve Davies/Swansea University Virus prevalence associated with habitat: ...

Sex as stress management in microbes

Credit: Valerio Vitali Why is sex so popular? The question of why so many organisms reproduce sexually has mystified evolutionary ...

The ins and outs of sex change in medaka fish

Credit: TANAKA. Larval nutrition plays a role in determining the sexual characteristics of Japanese rice fish, also called medaka (Oryzias ...

Untangling a key step in photosynthetic oxygen production

Understanding nature's process could inform the next generation of artificial photosynthetic systems that produce clean and renewable energy from sunlight ...

Study indicates the need to revise the protocol for detecting Zika in placenta

Brazilian researchers show that the virus can infect different placental regions and that collection and storage methods should be taken ...

How cosmic rays may have shaped life

Credit: Simons Foundation Before there were animals, bacteria or even DNA on Earth, self-replicating molecules were slowly evolving their way ...

UCF study finds microplastics in Florida’s birds of prey for 1st time

A new study from the University of Central Florida has confirmed and quantified, for the first time, the presence of ...

At the crossroads

Scientists investigate epigenetic mechanisms of blood cell differentiationCredit: © MPI of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, C.Pessoa Rodrigues, Freiburg On average, the ...

Grasshoppers are perfectly aware of their own coloration when trying to camouflage

It is the first time that research has shown in such detail that variation between individuals affects their choice of ...

Computer science student builds website to track COVID-19 in India

Credit: covid19india.org BINGHAMTON, NY -- In the midst of the global pandemic, a student at Binghamton University, State University of ...

Researchers reveal origins of complex hemoglobin by resurrecting ancient proteins

Credit: Photo by G. Hochberg. Most biological processes are carried out by complexes of multiple proteins that work together to ...

Hunting threatens one of the world’s most amazing wildlife migrations

Credit: Summerdrought As the world looks to tighten up the illegal capture of wildlife, migratory birds are being threatened by ...

Scientists find out which of the metazoans has the smallest known genome