What is an individual? Information Theory may provide the answer
Credit: Brent Deuel/NOAA Photo Library It's almost impossible to imagine biology without individuals -- individual organisms, individual cells, and individual ...
Tag: Biology
International consortium investigates overactive immune cells as cause of COVID-19 deaths
New publication links neutrophil infiltration in the lungs of patients to COVID-19 symptomsCredit: Egeblad lab/CSHL Cold Spring Harbor, NY -- ...
MDI Biological Laboratory-led program reveals high arsenic in well water
Levels in many Maine and New Hampshire wells exceed maximumCredit: MDI Biological Laboratory BAR HARBOR, MAINE — A program to ...
Logging threatening endangered caribou
University of Guelph researchers found changes in habitat and food webs caused from deforestation is threatening the endangered woodland caribouCredit: ...
Mahogany tree family dates back to last hurrah of the dinosaurs
Credit: KU News Service LAWRENCE -- You might own something made from mahogany like furniture, paneling or a musical instrument. ...
Staff at Berkeley Lab’s X-Ray facility mobilize to support COVID-19-related research
Advanced Light Source experiments focus on proteins related to virus that has infected about 2 million people worldwideCredit: Thor Swift, ...
The importance of probiotic names — and why some of them have changed
Scientists announce new names for some of the most popular probiotic bacteriaCredit: Photo by http://benvandenbroecke.be/ from https://isappscience.org/ "Probiotic" is a ...
COPD as a lung stem cell disease
Single cell cloning tells the story of abnormal cellsCredit: University of Houston Two internationally renowned stem cell experts have found ...
COVID-19: Exercise may protect against deadly complication
May prevent or reduce severity of acute respiratory distress syndromeCredit: Dan Addison | UVA Communications Regular exercise may reduce the ...
Improving the treatment of periodontitis
Amoeba linked to severe gum diseaseCredit: Schaefer/ Charité For the first time, researchers from Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin have shown ...
Nature: Don’t hope mature forests to soak up carbon dioxide emissions
Credit: Western Sydney University Globally, forests act as a large carbon sink, absorbing a substantial portion of the anthropogenic CO2 ...
Crohn’s disease: Preserving inflammation-free phases
Early detection of Crohn's disease flare-ups leads to improved therapy optionsCredit: Prof. Dirk Haller / TUM Intestinal stem cell metabolism ...
How does sugar drive consumption? Scientists discover gut-brain sugar sensor in mice
Pioneering study points to promising avenues for minimizing sugar cravings and potentially reducing incidence of obesity and diabetesCredit: Hwei-Ee Tan/Zuker ...
Impact of donor lymphocyte infusion and intensified conditioning for relapsed/refractory leukemia
Credit: ©Science China Press Patients with acute leukemia who become refractory to initial or re-induction chemotherapy (refractory/relapsed acute leukemia (RRAL)) ...
New textile could keep you cool in the heat, warm in the cold
Credit: ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acsami.0c02300 Imagine a single garment that could adapt to changing weather conditions, ...
How expectations influence learning
Credit: RUB, Marquard During learning, the brain is a prediction engine that continually makes theories about our environment and accurately ...
Bees point to new evolutionary answers
Climate change snapshot in Fijian highlandsCredit: Courtesy James Dorey Evolutionary biology aims to explain how new species arise and evolve ...
Researchers restore sight in mice by turning skin cells into light-sensing eye cells
NIH-funded study offers new path to modeling eye disease, advancing therapiesCredit: Sai Chavala Researchers have discovered a technique for directly ...
Studying pterosaurs and other fossil flyers to better engineer manmade flight
Credit: Mark Witton Pterosaurs were the largest animals ever to fly. They soared the skies for 160 million years--much longer ...
Fossil record analysis hints at evolutionary origins of insects’ structural colors
Analysis of 13,000-year-old fossils suggest photonic nanostructures in insects, which create colorful iridescent colors, may have originated as a means ...
