Tag: Biology

Natural resilience is more important than ever in the face of unprecedented climate changeCredit: Sturrock et al. 2019 The manipulation ...

Study probing visual memory, amblyopia unveils many-layered mystery

Credit: Bear Lab/ Picower Institute for Learning and Memory In decades of studying how neural circuits in the brain's visual ...

Moongoose females compete over reproduction

Credit: Emma Vitikainen A new study on wild banded mongooses reveals that females may use spontaneous abortion to cope with ...

Tracking titin in real time

Credit: Gotthardt Lab, MDC Using new high-resolution imaging techniques, MDC researchers and colleagues have tracked titin, the body's largest protein, ...

New study enhances knowledge about widespread diseases

Credit: Johan Wingborg When proteins in the brain form deposits consisting of insoluble aggregates, diseases such as Alzheimer's or Parkinson's ...

Strengthening European biology

EMBL joins Instruct-ERICCredit: PHOTO: Udo Ringeisen / EMBL European biomedical research capabilities, and services to industry, will be further enhanced ...

Researchers create synthetic nanopores made from DNA

Credit: Rasmus Peter Thomsen, Aarhus University In 2015, the first commercial nanopore DNA sequencing device was introduced by Oxford Nanopore ...

Success in metabolically engineering marine algae to synthesize valuable antioxidant astaxanthin

Credit: Kobe University A research group led by Professor HASUNUMA Tomohisa of Kobe University's Engineering Biology Research Center have succeeded ...

Perinatal exposure to flame retardant alters epigenome, predisposing metabolic disease

UMass Amherst scientist expanding chemical exposure research to include humansCredit: UMass Amherst Studies have shown that perinatal exposure of rats ...

Climate cycles and insect pests drive migration timing of reindeer’s North American cousin

In the largest-ever caribou study a University of Maryland-led team disputes long-held assumptions about migration timing and suggests warming summers ...

Insight into the neglected tropical disease sleeping sickness

Credit: Mick Urbaniak Lancaster University researchers have shed light on how the parasite which causes sleeping sickness multiples inside its ...

Study pinpoints new drug targets to treat Nipah virus

Credit: Mallur Madhusudhan, CC BY 4.0 Nipah virus, which is transmitted to humans from bats and pigs, has a high ...

For controlling tsetse flies, fabric color matters

Credit: Prof. Steve Tor, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine Tsetse flies infest an estimated 10 million square kilometers of sub-Saharan ...

Tiny insects become ‘visible’ to bats when they swarm

3-D simulations could provide new insights into the evolution of bat echolocationCredit: Mor Taub. Small insects that would normally be ...

New drugs more likely to be approved if backed up by genetics

New analysis confirms human genomic data could predict success in clinical trialsCredit: Andy Leppard, Flickr A new drug candidate is ...

Study finds differences in energy use by immune cells in ME/CFS

NIH-funded research suggests changes in the immune system in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndromeCredit: Image credit: Dave Burbank/Cornell University New findings ...

Novel study underscores microbial individuality

Largest-ever study analyzing cells' individual blueprints reveals new patterns in the global distribution and diversity of ocean microbesCredit: Bigelow Laboratory ...

Virus multiplication in 3D

Credit: Clemens Grimm For viruses to multiply, they usually need the support of the cells they infect. In many cases, ...

Scientists discover key neural circuit regulating alcohol consumption

The UNC School of Medicine lab of Zoe McElligott, PhD, found that alcohol consumption is regulated by the activity of ...

Tracking lab-grown tissue with light