Tag: Biology

Credit: Graphic by Shireen Dooling for the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University For researchers investigating Alzheimer's Disease (AD), a ...

Bees are the best: USU scientist releases children’s book

Conservation biologist Joseph Wilson and illustrator Jonny VanOrman team to create whimsical story of bee diversity and broadening one's horizonsCredit: ...

Crop diversity can buffer the effects of climate change

Stanford researchers uncover benefits of diversified farms for protecting wildlife and buffering against climate changeCredit: Nick Hendershot How we farm ...

How does an intersex bee behave?

Credit: Chelsey Ritner In the neotropical forest of Barro Colorado Island in Panama, an unusual bee hatched: half male and ...

Sugar brings a lot of carbon dioxide into the deeper sea

Laminarin plays central role in marine carbon cycle; in the sunlit surface layer of the ocean, photosynthetic microalgae convert much ...

6000-8000 km round trip flight of migratory wading birds tracked

Credit: Satoe Kasahara Ph.D., Suwa Hydrobiological Station, Faculty of Science, and Institute of Mountain Science, Shinshu University The next time ...

Control mechanism of force-induced cell-to-cell adhesion

Credit: NIBB Using the amphibian Xenopus laevis as a model, Drs. Noriyuki Kinoshita and Naoto Ueno from the National Institute ...

To prevent tick encounters, where you dump your leaves matters

Raking leaves out to the yard edge may increase tick numbers thereCredit: Flickr user Lennart Tange, CC BY 2.0 Annapolis, ...

Loss of protein disturbs intestinal homeostasis and can drive cancer

Credit: Marc Healy, UZH Colorectal carcinoma (CRC), the most common form of intestinal cancer, is the second leading cause of ...

‘Fatal attraction’: Small carnivores drawn to kill sites, then ambushed by larger kin

Credit: Kaija Klauder/University of Washington In many parts of the world, there is an imbalance in the food chain. Without ...

Salmon provide nutrients to Alaskan streambanks

Credit: David D'Amore Adult Pacific salmon spend a great portion of their life in the ocean. But their life began ...

Comparisons of organic and conventional agriculture need to be better, say researchers

Credit: Yen Strandqvist/Chalmers The environmental effects of agriculture and food are hotly debated. But the most widely used method of ...

UMass Amherst biostatistician lends expertise to white house coronavirus task force

New research calculates median incubation period for COVID-19Credit: UMass Amherst A University of Massachusetts Amherst biostatistician who directs the UMass-based ...

Compartments without borders

New method to create 'membraneless compartments' lends insight into cellular processesCredit: Keating Lab, Penn State A new laboratory method allows ...

Building a better botox

Small engineering tweaks to botulinum toxin B could make it more effective and longer-lasting with fewer side effectsCredit: Yin L; ...

Common anti-parasite treatments used on cattle have devastating impacts on wildlife

Experts have stressed an urgent need to find alternatives to wormers and anti-ectoparasitic products used widely on cattleCredit: © Fiona ...

Mysterious ancient sea-worm pegged as new genus after half-century in ‘wastebasket’

Credit: Anna Whitaker, et al. LAWRENCE -- When a partial fossil specimen of a primordial marine worm was unearthed in ...

Composing new proteins with artificial intelligence

Using machine learning to create new proteins by translating proteins into musical scoresCredit: Markus J. Buehler WASHINGTON, March 17, 2020 ...

Natural solutions to the climate crisis? One-quarter is all down to Earth…

Credit: KIB Joint research conducted by The Nature Conservancy and the Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences calculated ...

Passport tagging for express cargo transportation in cells