Tag: Biology

This discovery has implications in cancer, stem cell growth, and blood or neuron progenitor cell speciationCredit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - ...

Do urban fish exhibit impaired sleep?

Light pollution suppresses melatonin production in perchCredit: Photo: Michael Feierabend Melatonin controls the body clock - high melatonin levels make ...

Tissue dynamics provide clues to human disease

EMBL scientists examine the molecular causes of a rare hereditary disease of the spine and ribsCredit: Ebisuya group/EMBL Segmentation clock ...

An antibiotic masquerading as a natural compound in the Giant Madeiran Squill

Credit: Luke Robertson A previous study has shown that a type of squill growing in Madeira produces a chemical compound ...

Coronavirus Vaccine: Where are we and what’s next? (video)

Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, April 3, 2020 -- You might have heard that COVID-19 vaccine trials are underway ...

Clues to COVID-19 coronavirus’s vulnerability emerge from an antibody against SARS

A Scripps Research study reveals a likely site of vulnerability on the SARS-CoV-2 virus.Credit: Meng Yuan and Nicholas Wu LA ...

First SARS-CoV-2 genomes in Austria openly available

Credit: Bobby Rajesh Malhotra / CeMM The COVID-19 outbreak caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 was declared a pandemic by the ...

Daughter cells carry memory from mother on decision to divide

Credit: Mingwei Min When do cells decide to divide? For 40 years, the textbook answer has been that this decision ...

When three species of human ancestor walked the Earth

Credit: Angeline Leece. An international team, including Arizona State University researcher Gary Schwartz, have unearthed the earliest known skull of ...

Gut communicates with the entire brain through cross-talking neurons

Credit: University of Illinois. URBANA, Ill. - You know that feeling in your gut? We think of it as an ...

Coastal pollution reduces genetic diversity of corals, reef resilience

Credit: Zac Forsman A new study by researchers at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa School of Ocean and Earth ...

Scientists show how parasitic infection causes seizures, psychiatric illness for some

Fralin Biomedical Research Institute scientists show how infection rewires brainCredit: Virginia Tech Think about traffic flow in a city - ...

Researchers solve structure of ‘inverted’ rhodopsin

Credit: K. Kovalev et. al. Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, working with Spanish, French, and German ...

Scientists develop ‘backpack’ computers to track wild animals in hard-to-reach habitats

Lightweight wireless network enables precise mapping of bats' social networksCredit: Simon Ripperger COLUMBUS, Ohio - To truly understand an animal ...

Colorado study overturns ‘snapshot’ model of cell cycle in use since 1974

Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center Cells have a big decision: Should they replicate or sleep? Healthy cells can go ...

Turning cells into computers with protein logic gates

Biochemists have created "smart" proteins that function inside human cells by turning genes on and offCredit: MolGraphics/UW Medicine Institute for ...

Single mutation leads to big effects in autism-related gene

NIH study provides insight into one mechanism underlying the higher prevalence of males in some cases of autismCredit: Image courtesy ...

Repair instead of renew: Damaged powerhouses of cells have their own ‘workshop mode’

Credit: Alexandra Kukat If the energy supply of a cell is disturbed by damage, it can protect itself from functional ...

Discovery of life in solid rock deep beneath sea may inspire new search for life on Mars

Bacteria live in tiny clay-filled cracks in solid rock millions of years oldCredit: Caitlin Devor, University of Tokyo, CC BY ...

Study shows six decades of change in plankton communities