Tag: Biology

Researchers discover that neonicotinoid seed treatments are driving a dramatic increase in insecticide toxicity in U.S. agricultural landscapes, despite evidence ...

How diarrhea pathogens switch into attack mode at body temperature

MicrobiologyCredit: RUB, Kramer Many bacterial pathogens excrete toxins as soon as they have entered the host in order to suppress ...

Advancing the application of genomic sequences through ‘Kmasker plants’

Joint press release of IPK, IPB & Martin Luther University Halle-WittenbergCredit: Chris Ulpinnis / IPB Halle & Pixabay Gatersleben, 20.01.2020 ...

Researchers solve protein structures to fight asthma

Credit: Anastasiia Gusach et al./Nature Communications Biophysicists from the MIPT Center for Molecular Mechanisms of Aging and Age-Related Diseases have ...

Avatar worms help to identify factors that modify genetic diseases

IDIBELL researchers have used gene-editing technology in C. elegans to reproduce human mutations that cause retinitis pigmentaria. With this method, ...

Sanitary care by social ants shapes disease outcome

January 17, 2020

Social interactions of ants affect pathogen competition -- study published in Ecology LettersCredit: Gert Brovad Who wins in a competition ...

New study identifies potential path forward for brachial plexus injury recovery

Credit: Photo by Matt Cashore/University of Notre Dame On average, an estimated three out of every 1,000 newborns will suffer ...

Study gauges efficacy of drugs against pork tapeworm

Credit: Pan American Health Organization/ World Health Organization official photo (CC BY 4.0) Taenia solium--also called pork tapeworm--is a parasite ...

Stage is set to develop clinically relevant, senescence-based biomarkers of aging

Proteomic Atlas of Senescence-Associated Secretomes can be used by the research community to speed translation of therapeutics to clinical useCredit: ...

Low doses of radiation used in medical imaging lead to mutations in cell cultures

Discovery that radiation creates breaks that allow in foreign DNA must be confirmed in animal studiesCredit: Kevin Mackenzie, University of ...

Breakthrough on curbing dengue

Credit: CSIRO Scientists from Australia's national science agency, CSIRO, and the University of California San Diego have engineered the first ...

The carbon footprint of dinner: How ‘green’ are fish sticks?

Popular products generate significant 'post-catch' emissions, underscoring the need to measure what happens after fish are caughtCredit: UC Santa Cruz ...

Study unravels new insights into a Parkinson’s disease protein

Research on alpha-synuclein highlights a potential therapeutic strategyCredit: Anderson, Hirpa, Zheng, Banerjee and Gunawardena, Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, Jan. 2020. ...

Cyanobacteria in water and on land identified as source of methane

Credit: Angelina Tittmann Cyanobacteria, also known as blue-green algae, are among the most common organisms on Earth. A research team ...

Cancer study may accidentally help researchers create usable blood stem cells

Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center A massive research effort over more than a quarter century has tried to make ...

Physicists design ‘super-human’ red blood cells to deliver drugs to specific targets

Credit: Georgia Kirkos, McMaster University A team of physicists from McMaster University has developed a process to modify red blood ...

How decisions unfold in a zebrafish brain

Credit: Laboratory of Neurotechnology and Biophysics Some things we do appear almost automatic, like opening the fridge when feeling hungry ...

Nanopore sequencing of African swine fever virus

Credit: ©Science China Press African swine fever (ASF) is one of the most pathogenic viral diseases in pigs caused by ...

A sea monster’s genome

Credit: The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London Sailors' yarns about the Kraken, a giant sea-monster lurking in the ...

Pulling the plug on calcium pumps — potential new treatment strategy for pancreatic cancer