Tag: Biology

Credit: © Enrico Girardi / CeMM Solute carriers (SLCs) represent the largest family of transmembrane transporters in the human genome, ...

Scientists identify new target for Parkinson’s therapies

Credit: University of Leeds A master control region of a protein linked to Parkinson's disease has been identified for the ...

UMD researcher establishes a new viable CRISPR-Cas12b system for plant genome engineering

New publication in Nature Plants details the first application of CRISPR-Cas12b in plants, providing gene editing, activation, and repression capabilities ...

Mosquito-borne viral diseases

European project of the University of Bayreuth studies the influence of biodiversityCredit: Graphic: Nils Tjaden. As a result of climate ...

Ship noise leaves crabs too stressed to hide from danger

Credit: Martin Stevens The ocean is getting too loud even for crabs. Normally, shore crabs (Carcinus maenas) can slowly change ...

New study unveils the mechanism of DNA high-order structure formation

Credit: UNIST A joint research team, led by Professor Ja Yil Lee (School of Life Sciences, UNIST) and Professor Ji-Joon ...

Producing human tissue in space

Credit: NASA On 6 March at 11:50 PM EST, the International Space Station resupply mission Space X CRS-20 took off ...

FierceMedTech names Insilico Medicine as one of its ‘Fierce 15’ companies of 2019

Credit: Insilico 9th of March, 2020, 9:00 AM ET --Insilico Medicine today announced that it has been named by FierceMedTech ...

One species to four: New analysis documents new bird diversity in the Pacific

Modern techniques allow international team to parse Pacific Robin populations across South Pacific islands into several distinct species, with major ...

Gene regulatory factors enable bacteria to kill rivals and establish symbiosis in a squid

Credit: Nate Follmer, Penn State Two factors that control the expression of a key gene required by luminescent bacteria to ...

Resurrecting ancient protein partners reveals origin of protein regulation

Credit: Dorothee Kern/Brandeis University/HHMI By bringing the ancient history of two proteins back to life, researchers have caught a glimpse ...

The complex biology behind your love (or hatred) of coffee

A Berkeley Lab scientist used statistics to tease out how genetics and environment interact to shape coffee consumptionCredit: Julius Schorzman/Wikimedia ...

Specialized helper cells contribute to immunological memory

Credit: University of Basel, Department of Biomedicine, Ludivine Litzler Helper T cells play an important role in the immune response ...

West coast dungeness crab stable or increasing even with intensive harvest, research shows

Central California crab numbers rise to an average of five times that of past decadesCredit: NOAA Fisheries/NWFSC The West Coast ...

$3 million grant may result in fewer unnecessary breast biopsies

Dartmouth engineers partner with industry to develop a better breast examCredit: Shireen Geimer/Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth Most people ...

Neuroscientists discover new structure of important protein in the brain

Credit: University of Copenhagen After five years of experimentation, researchers from the University of Copenhagen have succeeded in crystallising and ...

Exploring the deep tissues using photoacoustic imaging