Tag: Biology

Credit: Hua Bai AMES, Iowa - Researchers may have discovered a way to turn back the clock on aging heart ...

Grant aims to improve environmental education

Credit: Daniel Pratson. Field trips can be transformative experiences for students: Having the chance to get outside of the classroom, ...

1.2M NSF grant provides research opportunities for underserved students

Credit: Peter Means for Virginia Tech Many great scientific collaborations have existed throughout history: Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary ...

Ultrasound selectively damages cancer cells when tuned to correct frequencies

Low-intensity approach targets cancer cells by their mechanical properties and illustrates the promise of the emerging field of oncotripsyCredit: David ...

‘Census’ in the zebrafish’s brain

Dresden scientists explore newborn, regenerated neuronsCredit: Christian Lange The zebrafish is a master of regeneration: If brain cells are lost ...

Scientists discover the mechanism of DNA high-order structure formation

Credit: KAIST The genetic material of our cells--DNA--exists in a high-order structure called "chromatin". Chromatin consists of DNA wrapped around ...

The growing pains of orphan chimpanzees

Mothers may be shaping pre-adult growth and offspring muscle mass even without direct provisioningCredit: Liran Samuni The prolonged periods of ...

Abandoning pastures reduces the biodiversity of mountain streams

A study of 15 South Tyrolean waterways shows that the presence of extensive pastures increases biodiversity in streams and riversCredit: ...

New ‘umbrella’ species would massively improve conservation

Credit: The University of Queensland The protection of Australia's threatened species could be improved by a factor of seven, if ...

The birds and the bats: Evolving to fly may have had big effect on gut microbiome

Comparing microbiomes in 900 vertebrate species revealed that bats have guts more like birds than other mammalsCredit: UC San Diego ...

Birds and bats have strange gut microbiomes — probably because they can fly

Credit: Holly Lutz At a time when kombucha is commonplace on cafe menus and "probiotic-fortified" has become the newest health ...

Ghost worms mostly unchanged since the age of dinosaurs

Credit: José Cerca, Christian Meyer, Günter Purschke, Torsten H. Struck That size, shape and structure of organisms can evolve at ...

Poplars genetically modified not to harm air quality grow as well as non-modified trees

Credit: Photo by T. Rosenstiel, Portland State University. CORVALLIS, Ore. - Field trials in the Northwest and Southwest show that ...

Scientists find new way to sustainably make chemicals by copying nature’s tricks

Credit: Patrik Jones/Imperial College London Researchers have copied the way organisms produce toxic chemicals without harming themselves, paving the way ...

Genes controlling mycorrhizal colonization discovered in soybean

Credit: Michelle Pawlowski, University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. - Like most plants, soybeans pair up with soil fungi in a ...

Jaguars could prevent a not-so-great American biotic exchange

Maintaining tropical forest predators in Darien could keep coyotes at bayCredit: Fundacion Yaguara Panama For the first time, coyotes (Canis ...

Study shows animal life thriving around Fukushima

Researchers document more than 20 species in nuclear accident zoneCredit: UGA Nearly a decade after the nuclear accident in Fukushima, ...

URI, BayCare, Butler Hospital launch trial for early detection of Alzheimer’s disease

Study seeks 330 volunteers for clinical trialsCredit: URI photo by Michael Salerno. KINGSTON, R.I. - January 6, 2020 -- The ...

Researchers united on international road map to insect recovery

Credit: Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW) - Kees van Oers, Perro de Jong & Brechje van Beek It's no secret ...

LD Motif Finder locates ancient hidden protein patterns