Marshall University scientists receive NIH grant for new anti-MRSA antibiotic study
Credit: Marshall University HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Timothy Long, Ph.D., an associate professor at the Marshall University School of Pharmacy, along ...
Tag: Biology
Sugar-poor diets wreak havoc on bumblebee queens’ health
Study: Flower losses due to shrinking habitats and climate change hurt prime pollinatorsCredit: Jim Whitfield Without enough sugar in their ...
Illinois study shows universally positive effect of cover crops on soil microbiome
Credit: Maria Villamil, University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. - Only a fraction of conventional row crop farmers grow cover crops ...
New ecological process for producing cheaper biofuel
Canadian researchers make biodiesel from sewage sludge and glycerolCredit: INRS Professors Rajeshwar Dayal Tyagi and Patrick Drogui, researchers at the ...
Bacterium makes complex loops
Research team analyses flagellar locomotionCredit: Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces/Klaas Bente A scientific team from the Biosciences and ...
Support grows for technology aimed at turning bad fat to good fat
Credit: Alexander M. Gokan WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A significant investment from a Purdue University alumnus and his wife will ...
Joining forces to fighting rice diseases in India
Biology: HHU signs Memorandum of UnderstandingCredit: HHU / Jochen Mueller A large proportion of India's farmers live from growing rice, ...
Five million euros for the ‘de.NBI’ bioinformatics network
Further funding for the project based in Bielefeld five years after its startCredit: Photo: Bielefeld University/M.-D. Müller It should be ...
SNIPRs take aim at disease-related mutations
Credit: The Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University A typo appearing in the draft of a novel is no great ...
Identifying pathogenic genes in virus strains at a glance
International project to help determine genetic abnormalitiesCredit: Bielefeld University/R. Wittler When new viruses or bacteria spread to humans, it is ...
Baldness gene discovery reveals origin of hairy alpine plants
Credit: Ying Tan Scientists have solved a puzzle that has long baffled botanists - why some plants on high mountainsides ...
Research project aims to make experiments on red blood cells more realistic
Credit: Saarland University/Thorsten Mohr Red blood cells (erythrocytes) are the pack animals of the human circulatory system. They transport oxygen ...
A tadpole with a twist: Left-right asymmetric development of Oikopleura dioica
Researchers at Osaka University find that a tadpole-like tunicate with nonconventional left-right patterning lacks the Nodal gene found in other ...
Bacteria loop-the-loop
Research team with participation from the University of Göttingen analyses flagellar locomotionCredit: Sarah Mohammadinejed, University of Göttingen The magnetotactic bacterium ...
Roadmap to a win-win against invasive weeds
Combining big data with citizen science provide answers to problems with terrestrial invasive species.Credit: Blair Cowie/Wits University Researchers at Wits ...
How enzymes build sugar trees
Credit: Joël Bloch / ETH Zurich Many of the membrane proteins in eukaryotic cells are decorated with complex sugar trees ...
Mosaic evolution painted lorikeets a rainbow of color
New study shows how color pattern evolution lets birds use bright colors for signaling while remaining hidden from predatorsCredit: Blickwinkel/Alamy ...
What big data can tell us about plants
New journal launched by Cambridge University Press and the John Innes CentreCredit: Cambridge University Press A new open access journal ...
Tadpoles break the tension with bubble-sucking
Credit: Kurt Schwenk When it comes to the smallest of creatures, the hydrogen bonds that hold water molecules together to ...
New CRISPR base-editing technology slows ALS progression in mice
Credit: Image courtesy of Thomas Gaj, University of Illinois CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- With a new CRISPR gene-editing methodology, scientists from ...
