Tag: Biology

Credit: José Antonio Peñas (SINC) Sixty-six million years ago, in the emerged lands of Laurasia -now the northern hemisphere- a ...

Life in dead wood

Credit: (Photo: Elisa Stengel) Waldsterben 2.0 - this term has made the rounds in Germany. It refers to the death ...

How and when spines changed in mammalian evolution

Harvard-led study examines functional diversity in mammalian backbonesCredit: Harvard University Museum of Comparative Zoology. A new study from Harvard University ...

The sleeping Sigma-Factor

A previously unknown mechanism enables bacterial antibiotic resistanceCredit: Max Planck Institute for terrestrial Microbiology/Iyer Researchers from the Max Planck Institute ...

French mathematician and spider aficionado Cédric Villani honoured with a new orb-weaver

With their astonishingly precise spiral webs, orb-weaving spiders are the arachnid analogy of first-class mathematicians, note the researchers behind the ...

Ancient Greek tholos-like architecture composed of archaeal proteins

A unique archaeal protein complex having a spacious center surrounded by five columnsCredit: © Biomolecular Organization Research Group Proteins often ...

New membranes for cellular recycling

Cells produce the shell of the autophagosomes on the spotCredit: MPI for Biology of Ageing There is a constant spring-cleaning ...

Butterflies can acquire new scent preferences and pass these on to their offspring

Findings demonstrate that insects learn from their previous experiences and adjust their future behaviour for survival and reproductionCredit: Emilie Dion ...

Flushing nitrogen from seawater-based toilets

Cancer cell reversion may offer a new approach to colorectal cancer treatment

Credit: KAIST A novel approach to reverse the progression of healthy cells to malignant ones may offer a more effective ...

Novel compound is promising drug candidate for Alzheimer’s disease

New gamma secretase inhibitor blocks only amyloid production, no other functionsCredit: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute TROY, N.Y. -- A newly identified ...

$250,000 in Vilcek Foundation Prizes awarded to immigrant scientists

The 2020 Vilcek Prizes recognize immigrant scientists for the development of tools and technologies advancing scientific discoveryCredit: Photos courtesy of ...

Assessing ‘stickiness’ of tumor cells could improve cancer prognosis

Credit: David Baillot/UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering A team of researchers led by the University of California San ...

Research sheds light on the evolutionary puzzle of coupling

Credit: German Primate Center-Leibniz Institute for Primate Research A UTSA researcher has discovered that, whether in a pair or in ...

Losing coastal plant communities to climate change will weaken sea defences

Credit: Mick Hanley, University of Plymouth Coastal plant communities are a crucial element of global sea defences but are increasingly ...

Can’t sleep or think clearly? Maybe the culprit is bacteria

Washington State, UMass Amherst researchers receive Keck Grant to study effects of bacteria on brainCredit: UMass Amherst With a $1 ...

How the immune system becomes blind to cancer cells

Credit: Illustration: CIBSS/University of Freiburg, Michal Roessler T cells play a huge role in our immune system's fight against modified ...

Institut Pasteur isolates strains of coronavirus 2019-nCoV detected in France

Credit: Institut Pasteur/CNR for Respiratory Viruses at the Institut Pasteur As well as sequencing the whole genome of coronavirus 2019-nCoV, ...

Pinpointing rare disease mutations

New resource that categorises genes essential for supporting life could be used to identify rare disease mutationsCredit: Spencer Phillips EMBL-EBI ...

Institut Pasteur sequences the whole genome of the Wuhan coronavirus, 2019-nCoV