Tag: Biology

Credit: ©Science China Press The number of hydropower dams has increased dramatically in the last 100 years for energy supply, ...

Major advances in our understanding of New World Morning Glories

Credit: Robert Scotland A major advance in revealing the unknown plant diversity on planet Earth is made with a new ...

Blocking sugar structures on viruses and tumor cells

Artificial sugar-binding protein may inhibit cell growthCredit: TUM-Chair of Biological Chemistry The laboratory directed by Arne Skerra, Professor of Biological ...

Elucidation of mechanisms that coordinate cell memory inheritance with DNA replication

Scientists find sexual dimorphism in cannabinoid 1 receptor expression in mice

Credit: WANG Feng A major challenge in neuroscience lies in understanding how molecular and circuit differences in the brain synergistically ...

How horses can save the permafrost

New mitigation strategy bears great potentialCredit: Pleistocene Park Permafrost soils in the Arctic are thawing. As they do, large additional ...

Beijing Tide Pharmaceutical and Insilico Medicine enter into an agreement for cancer therapy

noneCredit: Insilico BEIJING and HONG KONG, CHINA, March 17, 2020 (9 AM Beijing time) - Beijing Tide Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. ...

Microplastic fibers linked to respiratory, reproductive changes in fish

Exposure to microplastics causes cellular changes in fish and may disrupt endocrine systemsCredit: Melissa Chernick, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. -- ...

Predicting the impacts of white-nose syndrome in bats

Credit: Virginia Tech Since 2005, millions of bats have perished from white-nose syndrome, a disease caused by the fungus Pseudogymnoascus ...

Scientists have discovered the origins of the building blocks of life

Rutgers researchers retraced the evolution of enzymes over billions of yearsCredit: Vikas Nanda/Rutgers University Rutgers researchers have discovered the origins ...

New kind of CRISPR technology to target RNA, including RNA viruses like coronavirus

New genetic screening platform using CRISPR technology for targeting thousands of genes in a massively-parallel fashion; accurate and fast method ...

Bargain-hunting for biodiversity

New tool pinpoints conservation targetsCredit: Nathan Bendik, City of Austin KNOXVILLE --The best bargains for conserving some of the world's ...

Unraveling the puzzle of Madagascar’s forest cats

Credit: Michelle Sauther In her 30 years working as a researcher in Madagascar, CU Boulder Anthropology Professor Michelle Sauther has ...

Love rivals risk having offspring with a greater number of harmful mutations

Credit: Mareike Koppik Males that face tougher competition for females risk having offspring with a greater number of harmful mutations ...

Scientists can now edit multiple genome fragments at a time

CHyMErA: a new tool for simultaneous editing of multple genes and genomic fragmentsCredit: Ernesto del Aguila III, National Human Genome ...

Biophysicists blend incompatible components in one nanofiber

Credit: Elizaveta Pavlova et al./RSC Advances Russian researchers from the Federal Research Clinical Center of Physical-Chemical Medicine, the Moscow Institute ...

Two hormones drive anemonefish fathering, aggression

Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Two brain-signaling molecules control how anemonefish dads care for their young ...

Flexible ‘heroes’ save delicate proteins from stress