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Tag: Biology
Plant researchers examine bread aroma: Modern and old wheat varieties taste equally good
Publication by HHU and the University of Hohenheim in Food Research InternationalCredit: BeckaBeck The scientists compared taste and aroma of ...
School citizen science project dramatically improves children’s knowledge of UK mammals
Participation in citizen science camera trap project dramatically increased school children's knowledge of UK mammalsCredit: Samantha Mason Prior to starting ...
Lily and Yuh-Nung Jan named 20th Perl-UNC neuroscience prize recipients
The husband-and-wife scientists from UC San Francisco will be honored at a spring event at UNC-Chapel Hill for their seminal ...
Prellis Biologics launches TissueWorkshop to accelerate human tissue engineering research
TissueWorkshop™ makes complex tissue engineering simple for all researchers by generating complex 3D scaffolds that can be printed with any ...
Images of discovery
AIBS selects 2019 Faces of Biology Photo Contest winnersCredit: Michelle Jewell Three winners have been selected in the 2019 Faces ...
Scientists discover a novel method to combat antibiotic-resistant bacteria
A team of scientists from the Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine (inStem), and the Unilever R&D department ...
Natural ecosystems protect against climate change
Research led by Göttingen University studies carbon sinks and land-use in a mangrove-fringed lagoon in JavaCredit: K Anggi Hapsari The ...
Potentially toxic chemicals from LCDs in nearly half of household dust samples tested
Credit: Daniel Hallen/USask SASKATOON - Chemicals commonly used in smartphone, television, and computer displays were found to be potentially toxic ...
Three new Consolidator Grants at the University of Freiburg
Credit: Photos: Jürgen Gocke, Hans-Peter Fischer, Thomas Kunz The chemical biologist Prof. Dr. Maja Banks-Köhn, the chemist Prof. Dr. Henning ...
Key to helping southern sea otter is in repopulating estuaries such as San Francisco Bay
California could more than triple its population of southern sea otters -- and see the marine mammals removed from the ...
ERC Consolidator Grant for research on spatial navigation
The results will also be relevant for Alzheimer's researchCredit: RUB, Marquard Professor Nikolai Axmacher from Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) has received ...
Oxygen shaped the evolution of the eye
Convergent origins of new mechanisms to supply oxygen to the retina were directly linked to concurrent enhancements in the functional ...
What blocks bird flu in human cells?
Credit: Selbach Lab, MDC. Normally, bird flu viruses do not spread easily from person to person. But if this does ...
Chiton mollusk provides model for new armor design
Credit: Virginia Tech The motivations for using biology as inspiration to engineering vary based on the project, but for Ling ...
LSU Health discovers role of 2 proteins in sight and preventing blinding eye diseases
Credit: LSU Health New Orleans New Orleans, LA - Research led by Nicolas Bazan, MD, Ph.D., Boyd Professor and Director ...
Probiotic yeast may offer an effective treatment for drug-resistant fungal infections
A study by researchers at WPI and the Central Food Technological Research Institute in India shows that yeasts derived from ...
Insects’ drag-based flight mechanism could improve tiny flying robots
An experiment involving gluing a tiny thrip's wing to a self-sensing microcantilever was confirmed using 3D computational fluid dynamics simulationsCredit: ...
Spying on hippos with drones to help conservation efforts
Credit: Victoria Inman Drones with cameras might be a nuisance to privacy in the suburbs, but in Southern Africa they ...
Floral foam adds to microplastic pollution problem: Study
Water-absorbing green foam widely used by florists is contributing to the world's microplastic problemCredit: Image: Charlene Trestrail, RMIT University As ...
