Tag: Biology

Credit: Douglas Sponsler, Penn State UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Trees, shrubs and woody vines are among the top food sources ...

Harnessing psyllid peptides to fight citrus greening disease

BTI, USDA and UW researchers identified 122 peptides that could be used to as insecticides to halt a disease that ...

Spinal cord gives bio-bots walking rhythm

Credit: Image courtesy Collin Kaufman CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Miniature biological robots are making greater strides than ever, thanks to the ...

Scientists recreate DNA damage caused by toxins from smoking

Scientists recreate DNA damage caused by toxins from smoking in a bid to understand more about the causes of bladder ...

Shrinking instead of growing: how shrews survive the winter

Even at sub-zero temperatures, common shrews do not need to increase their metabolismCredit: Christian Ziegler Last year, about 30 common ...

Offspring may inherit legacy of their father’s Toxoplasma infection

Credit: Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Australia Australian researchers have revealed for the first time that males infected with the ...

Rat spinal cords control neural function in biobots

The interaction between a rat spinal cord and an engineered muscle system displays behavior similar to the peripheral nervous systemCredit: ...

How blood cells deform, recover when traveling through tiny channels

Two different types of shape recovery behaviors for red blood cells traveling through microfluidic channels may pave the way to ...

Finding the genes to build a better cancer treatment

Credit: WSU Scientists are one step closer to understanding how the cancer-fighting drug Taxol is produced by trees. In a ...

Joan W. Conaway elected to the National Academy of Sciences

Credit: Stowers Institute KANSAS CITY, MO--The Stowers Institute for Medical Research is pleased to announce that Joan Weliky Conaway, PhD, ...

Invasive lionfish likely to become permanent residents in the Mediterranean

Credit: Marine and Environmental Research (MER) Lab An invasive species first identified in the Mediterranean Sea just eight years ago ...

Insilico and Astellas collaborate on AI for a conventionally challenging target family

Insilico Medicine enters into a collaboration research with Astellas Pharma Inc. to apply novel generative artificial intelligence system for a ...

Skoltech research shows how a ‘Swiss Army knife’ protein helps phages disarm their victims

Credit: Pavel Odinev / Skoltech Researchers from the Severinov Laboratory at Skoltech, along with their colleagues from Switzerland and Israel, ...

Making sense of the viral multiverse

Credit: The Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University In November of 2019--likely, even earlier--a tiny entity measuring just a few ...

Virus-infected honey bees more likely to gain entrance to healthy hives

Credit: Photo by Fred Zwicky CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Honey bees that guard hive entrances are twice as likely to allow ...

It takes a neutron beam to find a proton

Researchers from Osaka University use neutron crystallography to pinpoint hydrogen atoms and protons in the structure of a large enzyme ...

Three years of monitoring of Oregon’s gray whales shows changes in health

Credit: GEMM Lab, Oregon State University NEWPORT, Ore. - Three years of "health check-ups" on Oregon's summer resident gray whales ...

Research on the International Space Station shows key changes in cultured heart cells

Spaceflight changes much about the human body, including how the heart functions and how cells that create heart tissue behave. ...

Beta cells from stem cells

Potential for cell replacement therapyCredit: ©Helmholtz Zentrum München The loss of insulin-secreting beta cells by autoimmune destruction leads to type ...

Antibiotic exposure can ‘prime’ single-resistant bacteria to become multidrug-resistant