Tag: Biology

Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center Most ovarian cancer starts in fallopian tubes. Then it sloughs from its site of ...

Birds exposed to PCBs as nestlings show behavior changes as adults

Males sing fewer syllables and are more aggressiveCredit: Terence Alexander/Macaulay Library Ithaca, NY--According to a new study, Zebra Finches exposed ...

Destroying DNA to save the genome — study offers new insights into sepsis and its treatment

Scientists uncover a new mechanism underlying the life-threatening condition and propose a novel treatment strategy centered around cell-free chromatinCredit: Dr ...

Local community involvement crucial to restoring tropical peatlands

Local community involvement is vital in efforts to raise water levels to help restore Indonesia's tropical peatlands, a new study ...

New feathered dinosaur was one of the last surviving raptors

Credit: Sergey Krasovskiy A new feathered dinosaur that lived in New Mexico 67 million years ago is one of the ...

Deleting a gene prevents Type 1 diabetes in mice by disguising insulin-producing cells

Credit: Courtesy of Hugo Lee MADISON, Wis. -- Removing a gene from the cells that produce insulin prevents mice from ...

The genetic quest to understand COVID-19

Unlocking the genetic code of the novel coronavirus will help us prevent other diseasesCredit: University of Sydney How the novel ...

Jumping genes help make neurons in a dish

Under extreme heat and drought, trees hardly benefit from an increased CO2 level

Studies of Aleppo Pines reveal: The increase in carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration in the atmosphere does not compensate the negative ...

Making sense of cells

Credit: OIST Our body's ability to detect disease, foreign material, and the location of food sources and toxins is all ...

Celebrating our genomic diversity: Fine-scale differences in the Japanese population

Researchers led by Osaka University use dimensionality reduction analyses to identify fine-scale differences in the Japanese population, revealing greater population ...

Astronaut conducts heart research on station with former colleague

When NASA astronaut Jessica Meir recently slipped her hands into the Life Sciences Glovebox on the International Space Station to ...

Insights into the diagnosis and treatment brain cancer in children

Credit: Kanazawa University Ependymoma is a rare form of brain cancer that implicates children and is often tricky to diagnose. ...

OSU research paves way to improved cleanup of contaminated groundwater

Credit: OSU College of Engineering CORVALLIS, Ore. - Beads that contain bacteria and a slow-release food supply to sustain them ...

A critical enzyme for sperm formation could be a target for treating male infertility

The protein, SKP1, drives a key transition step in male meiosis, the type of cell division process that results in ...

Renewable energy developments threaten biodiverse areas

Credit: Francisca Hidalgo More than 2000 renewable energy facilities are built in areas of environmental significance and threaten the natural ...

A small forage fish should command greater notice, researchers say

UMass Amherst, more than 20 scientists urge greater effort to gather sand lance dataCredit: UMass Amherst/Keenan Yakola AMHERST, Mass. - ...

Found in mistranslation

Researchers from the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, have found that global mistranslation of proteins increases cell survival under ...

Here be dragons: Analysis reveals new species in Smaug lizard group

Credit: Edward Stanley GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Smaug, the deadly dragon in J.R.R Tolkien's "The Hobbit," has a few living relatives. ...

Snake venom evolved for prey not protection